Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Carbon fiber is the Superman of materials. Five times stronger than ...

Enter Carbon Revolution and its carbon-fiber wheels, stage left. Originally a plaything of the aerospace industry, carbon-fiber composites first caught the eye of the automotive industry via racing.

Now that carbon-fiber composites have migrated from the world of blank-check motorsports to semiaffordable production cars such as the BMW i3 and Chevrolet Corvette, what’s next? Is there ...

Not one to be flattered by imitation, Ruger continues to expand and improve its 10/22 line-up with models like the new-for-2025 10/22 Carbon Fiber. The 10/22 Carbon Fiber gets its name from its 16 ...

You'd expect carbon fiber—the ultra light, hard-as-steel composite—to shatter or something when you crush it with a hydraulic press. Not. At. All. Carbon fiber almost disintegrates ...

The one-of-a-kind Titan submersible that imploded on its descent to the site of the Titanic this week, killing all five passengers, was made with experimental materials, including carbon fiber ...

A draft amendment to the EU’s End-of-Life Vehicles Directive (ELVD) suggested that carbon fiber be classified as a "hazardous material" alongside substances like lead and mercury. As news ...

Result of winding a carbon fiber tube. (Credit: Andrew Reilley) Carbon fiber (CF) is an amazing material that provides a lot of strength for very little weight, making it very useful for a lot of ...

Together, Hankuk Carbon and Demgy expect to enable the mass production of state-of-the-art high-performance carbon fiber wheels for automotive OEMs. Photo Credit: Hankuk Carbon, Demgy. Hankuk Carbon ...

Carbon fiber is a great, albeit expensive material to use in the transportation industry. It's light, it's strong, and it also happens to look pretty neat. But, because of how it's created ...