With growing health, environmental, and ecological concerns associated with petroleum-based materials, the development of functional materials from plant ...

Maintaining Quality in Composites Prep for Strong Bonds . Bond failures can have severe consequences for manufacturers, ...

State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China Shanghai Engineering ...

CFRP, or carbon fiber-reinforced polymer, is one of the most commonly used engineering composites. But there are many others, including metal-matrix composites and ceramic-matrix composites ...

“Here, the polymer matrix is converted to a glassy carbon matrix ... “As a startup, we wanted to keep our overhead low, and there are a lot of local companies with composites manufacturing expertise.

And Datta says the work is also important in the context of biofilms, groupings of bacteria that grow an encapsulating polymer matrix of their own. There are biofilms in the human body ...

Researchers have developed an adhesive polymer that is stronger than current commercially available options while also being biodegradable, tunable, and reusable. The findings show how the common ...

Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Devices of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China ...