Swedish researchers have just produced the world's first model car with a roof and battery made from wood-based carbon fiber. Although it's built on the scale of a toy, the prototype vehicle ...

It’s also finished so that you can feel the texture of the rock ... which is a fifth the thickness of the gloss wood coating. The carbon fiber trim is pretty straightforward.

Thin layers of carbon fibre are cut to create the wood-like effects on these sunglasses, by industrial designer Rodrigo Caula. The pattern is formed by slicing through the thin layers that make up ...

The new wood-based materials can be stronger and lighter than both Kevlar and carbon fiber, at about ten percent of the cost of those materials. The varied properties of cellulose nanocrystals ...

Peugeot Design Lab's one-off GTi Surfboard Concept features a wooden nose and a carbon fiber main body. If you want something to look elegant, you build it out of wood.

We made the "world's lightest bat" with carbon fiber and balsa wood bat for guaranteed homeruns. Trump announces plan to purchase icebreaker vessels from Finland 12 Things That Should Never Go in ...

Spinning lignin from biorefineries or papermaking with polymer precursor makes cheaper and more sustainable carbon fibre for automotive or aerospace ... Lignin is the natural polymer that helps give ...

[Matt] from [DIY Perks] decided to address this and built a custom wood and carbon fiber PS5 enclosure that looks good in any orientation. He started by disassembling his PS5 and taking out only ...

WDBSD CF ® fibres enhance the property profile of conventional carbon fibres by providing high strength and ... the production of WDBSD CF ® marks the beginning of a new era in fibre technology.

But balsa wood is expensive and natural ... tiny silicon carbide "whiskers" and discrete carbon fibers. Key to the versatility of the resulting fiber-filled inks is the ability to control the ...

Lingrove has developed a wood veneer alternative out of flax fiber and plant-based resins that’s carbon-negative yet results in a material they say is “very high stiffness, durable ...