Most of the car consists of carbon fiber and carbon skin composites.
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The 787, the first jetliner made from a majority of lightweight carbon fiber composites, eliminates hot, heavy and hard-to-maintain pneumatic systems that power key parts of the jet.
Developing lightweight materials, such as low-cost carbon fiber composites (CFC's), that will improve fuel efficiency, performance, and corrosion resistance of the next generation of automobiles, aircraft, ships and trains.
There is also a feeling that some of the newer technologies, such as making fuselages lighter by building them out of carbon-composites instead of aluminium, may not yet be cost-effective for smaller aircraft.
The complex skeleton of HB-SIA is constructed from carbon-fibre composites formed into honeycomb and sandwich structures.
The lightest ultrastrong automotive materials, carbon-fiber composites, looked too costly for cars until a Rocky Mountain Institute spinoff commercialized an automated manufacturing process that makes complex composite parts in less than a minute.
The plane represented a big bet on new technology for Boeing: The plane's lightweight frame was to be built using mostly carbon-fiber composites, and it was to have an enhanced electrical system to power more systems and use less fuel than other jets.
They buy boats that look as if they were extruded from the same hunk of plastic and gather at events like Antigua Sailing Week to brag about how they've cut a few pounds out of their rig by switching to carbon-fiber composites from aluminum.
To get similar characteristics from composites, the carbon fibres are first chemically treated with an alkali which creates lots of tiny pits on their surface.
As a student in Singapore studying engineering, Vivek decided to combine his interest in nanotechnology with his passion for the environment to attempt to turn carbon emissions from industrial plants and automobiles into carbon nanotubes, which are used for composites, nano-electronics, optics, energy storage, and other science applications.
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Like traditional composites, Dr Greenhalgh's material consists of woven sheets of carbon fibres which are made rigid using a cured resin.
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