Natural fibers have a rich history of reinforcing materials for over 3,000 years. The renewed interest in natural fiber composites in the last five years is driven by a focus on improving and ...

A new generation of materials scientists is developing sustainable materials – and methods for making them – in response to warnings of an imminent climate catastrophe. Natural and plant-based ...

JEC Composites Magazine: Whilst natural flax and hemp fibres have been used onboard ships for ropes, sails and sealing between planks for hundreds, even thousands of years, the use of these fibres in ...

BMW is readying flax-based composites for series production cars. The German automaker is working with clean-tech company Bcomp for the natural composites found in the BMW Formula E car, the M4 DTM, ...

The manufacturing of carbon fiber-based composites uses fossil resources, which a research and technology project is trying to replace with bio-sourced materials. Credit: IRT Jules Verne Wood, a ...

The “DNA” of Faserinstitut Bremen e.V.’s (FIBRE) research is materials testing. At its ECOMAT site, much of its composites research is focused on aerospace and/or sustainability, including work in ...

Applications of natural fiber composites (NFC) can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians, who used to make bricks out of clay mud and straw. More recently, the use of natural fibers as a ...

Reuse by means of a recycling step is possible, within certain limits, for thermoplastic-matrix composites. Generally, this recycling consists in the crushing of the parts followed by a mixing phase ...

A problem facing architects when designing complex three-dimensional structures lies in their joints, which must be strong enough to take the loads and vector forces applied by the structure, yet ...