Scanning electron microscopy of the composite shows aluminum nanoparticles in a matrix of gallium. (Credit: Amberchan et al., 2022) Aluminum is a highly reactive metal that can strip oxygen from water ...

A new woody composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum, and might pave way for naturally derived plastics. The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its sprawling roots, but in the ...

There are some aviation observers who predict composites and titanium will rule the roost when it comes to aerospace airframes and structures. But that seems rather unlikely. Aluminum is still ...

Recently, national and international building codes have challenged the construction market with design-oriented goals of sustainability and energy efficiency. The increasing demand for high ...

It's been called the automotive engineer's dream material. Able to assume any shape while delivering stiffness, strength and light weight, carbon fiber has been the material of choice for years in ...

A new extended recycling method for deconstructing thin-layer composite packaging and remaking it into materials with near-virgin qualities will be on display by Germany’s Saperatec GmbH at K 2022 in ...

Russia's next-generation narrowbody airliner, the MS-21, will have a composite wing and empennage married to a fuselage constructed from advanced alloys such as aluminium lithium. The plans for the ...