Carbon fiber improves everything. So why aren't we making all our cars out of it? We went to Lamborghini's factory to find out. Stronger than steel and a fraction of the weight, carbon fiber is a ...

Carbon fiber -- what can't it do. The super-material is now venturing into the world of computer cooling, thanks to Sony. The electronics giant just showed off a prototype of a new cooling sheet, made ...

MUNICH—As a perennial fan of “How It’s Made” videos, my visit last month to GE’s Global Research Center in Munich was particularly fascinating. Although the campus is not involved with any actual ...

Carbon fiber changed the motorsport game when Formula One teams started using it to fabricate cars in the 1970s. A bunch of carbon atoms weaved together, carbon fiber is stiff, strong, and light—the ...

The automotive world has been obsessed with carbon fiber for decades, ever since the McLaren MP4/1 Formula One race car became the first to use a carbon fiber composite chassis in 1981. Since then, ...

In the A5, Icon Aircraft has produced an airplane that handles easily, resists dangerous spins, and treats its pilots and passengers to an open, airy cockpit. What the small company hasn’t produced, ...

Apart from the proven ability to be recycled in the form of macroscopic sheets, the researchers also see the potential for further disintegration of the recycled sheets into their constituent parts, ...