Over the past three decades, the manufacture of bicycle frames has advanced rapidly from an industry traditionally centered on steel to the use of extremely lightweight materials, including steel and ...

Dragonplate's telescoping tube clamp system provides a strong, yet easy to use method for creating extendable carbon fiber tube assemblies. These telescoping tube clamps feature an adjustable screw to ...

MUNICH—As a perennial fan of “How It’s Made” videos, my visit last month to GE’s Global Research Center in Munich was particularly fascinating. Although the campus is not involved with any actual ...

In September this year, Rock West Composites (RWC) announced a significant expansion of its in-stock, carbon fiber tubing for high-performance carbon bicycle frame applications. Carbon composite ...

A carbon fiber is prepared for mounting in a device to test its adhesion to a polymer matrix. ORNL researchers are using polymer nanofibers to increase the adhesion, and thus the performance, of ...

Organometallic complexes contain organic groups attached to a central metal through metal–carbon (M–C) bonds. These complexes undergo a set of elementary reactions, many of which release products ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Thomas Edison likely created the first commercial carbon fiber when he produced high-resistance carbonized filaments by heating cotton sewing thread and bamboo slivers to power an ...