Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lenzing is reinforcing its commitment to the sustainability of the textile value chain with a new process that addresses the ...

Carbon fibers are usually produced on an industrial scale from polyacrylonitrile (PAN). The stabilization and carbonization of the fibers takes place with long dwell times in high-temperature furnaces ...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--After winning a JEC Innovation Award in 2016 for its Lincoln MKS Decklid Concept – a TCA Ultra Lite® outer panel and a carbon fiber RTM prototype inner – ...

The new process, called gel electrospinning, is described in a paper by MIT professor of chemical engineering Gregory Rutledge and postdoc Jay Park. The paper appears online and will be published in ...

When paper dries and is subsequently rewetted, its properties change permanently. This phenomenon is known as hornification.

Before and after: DEECOM recycling process. U.K.-based Longworth originally developed its pressurized steam-based DEECOM process for cleaning polymers from metal. Now, the process has been shown to ...

A combined team of chemical and biomolecular engineers from the University of Delaware, and the Center for Plastics Innovation, both in the U.S., has developed a way to chemically separate fibers in ...

[Thomas Sanladerer] wanted to make 3D prints using carbon fiber and was surprised that it was fairly inexpensive and worked well, although he mentions that the process is a bit intense. You can learn ...