The largest fibre glass composite recreational fishing boat in China, "Qiong Sanya Yuxiu 88351", was put into use in the ...

Sometime this year, the swept area of the world's largest wind turbine will grow by nearly 30 percent. Swept area describes the circular zone outlined by the tips of a turbine's turning rotor blades, ...

When it comes to upgrading your home's exterior, there are tons of options to choose from for the perfect front door to match your home's style. Your new front door could be solid, have small glass ...

A new composite glass that combines the nacre-inspired structure and shear stiffening gel (SSG) material has been developed by a research team led by Professors Yong Ni and Linghui He from the ...

University of California San Diego researchers have a made new steel that has nearly three times the elastic limit of tungsten carbide. Tungsten carbide (a high-strength ceramic used in military armor ...

Composite Recycling has announced a strategic collaboration with Owens Corning’s glass reinforcements business to develop sustainable solutions for composite waste and advance industrial-scale ...

Glass fiber was the first reinforcement used in modern polymeric composites but springs from an ancient art. Here, glass fiber ends are wound side-by-side onto warp beams (large rolls or cylinders) ...

Heliotrope Technologies, an early-stage startup currently incubating at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, may have found the key to delivering the first cost-effective “smart window.” The company ...

A new type of glass that's five times more resistant to fractures than standard glass has been created – and it could finally spell an end to smashed phone screens. The glass and acrylic composite ...