carbon fibre
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Australia Now Knows The Secret To Making Carbon Fibre
Australia, we’ve just leveled up our Science skill: as a country, we now have the resources in place to mass-produce carbon fibre.
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Carbon Fibre Tour De France Bikes Are Surprisingly Easy To Counterfeit
The rise of carbon fibre technology brought lighter bikes, faster speeds and innovative aerodynamics to the world of cycling. But an unexpected side effect is starting to frustrate the world’s top bike builders. Chinese factories are counterfeiting their products and selling them for a fraction of the price. It’s dangerous too.
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It’s Safer To Cheat At Poker When You’re Playing With Bullet-Proof Cards
Everything looks cooler when made from carbon fibre, and that even applies to a deck of playing cards. But Sly Kly wants to take things one step further by engineering decks of cards made from both carbon fibre and kevlar — the same magical material that helps make vests bullet-proof. So the next time you…
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Scientists 3D-Printed Self-Assembling Wood And Carbon Fibre
For the most part, our wood and carbon fibre objects are solid, inert and boring lumps. They don’t bend or curl — or at least, they aren’t supposed to. But MIT researchers have created wood and carbon fibre specially designed to be dynamic, conjuring up visions of wood furniture that self-assembles out of the flat…