As the first major airliner to use lightweight composite materials for most of its construction, the 787 Dreamliner also promised 20% better fuel economy and 30% lower maintenance costs.
We were trying to build a boat that had not only to be capable of crossing our largest ocean but had to do so using unconventional and for the most part unproven materials.
The material choices for additive manufacturing are very limited, and for the most part, the materials are not strong or durable enough to be used in an actual product.
The asteroids hit the surface hard, over and over, and since the Moon has been a solid body for most of its history, their materials stay on or close to the surface.
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The journey for what eventually becomes a finished product often begins in some of the most remote places on the planet where the materials used for jewelry are mined from the earth.
Thursday was bad for almost everyone, but the biotech and materials sectors suffered the most.
And yet most of the change has been due to high prices for the raw materials that Brazil sells to the world.
The new Corvette, for instance, incorporates lightweight materials to a degree not seen on even the most exotic cars, including a carbon fiber hood and removable roof panel, and a carbon-reinforced aluminum frame.
Because resources such as textiles, wood, and metals were expensive and could not be wasted on practice runs, apprentices would spend most of their time working directly on materials that would be used for the final product.
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The founder noted that most of the money will be used to look for national opportunities as well as creating uniform materials on starting companies that can be shared with other programs.
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But its biggest and most controversial application is as a hardener for making polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins the materials of choice for manufacturing clear, shatter-proof bottles, spectacles, medical devices and CDs as well as dental coatings and linings for food cans.
The company, which currently gets most of its rubber from a plantation in Liberia, is also exploring other natural materials for producing the raw material for tires, including Russian dandelions and a native Southeast bush called guayule.
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They can afford to equip their tinkerers and visionaries with the most advanced materials, instruments, and knowledge, and the result has often been a superior capacity for innovation.
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