Owens Corning is a world leader in building materials systems and composite solutions.

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While Boeing took a gamble in creating an aircraft so dependent on electrical systems and composite aerostructures, it has already gone through the lengthy and painful process of convincing regulators the Dreamliner is safe.

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New technologies, including composite airframes, lighter engines and advanced avionics and design systems, are bringing a huge new generation of giants to life.

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"By harnessing the electrostatic nature of the assembly process with the functional properties of the virus, we can create highly ordered composite thin films combining the function of the virus and polymer systems, " Hammond says.

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Modern modeling systems create applications by invoking services provided by other applications, meaning that they are composite applications.

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