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LAMBORGHINI ANNOUNCES NEW CENTER FOR CARBON FIBER RESEARCH IN SANT’AGATA BOLOGNESE
Aug 1st
Sant’Agata Bolognese — Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. announces a new Advanced Composites Research Center (ACRC) at its headquarters in Sant’Agata Bolognese. The center carries out research on innovative design and production methods for carbon-fiber elements. Both the ACRC and an all-new, highly efficient production process for extremely complex carbon-fiber structures were developed at the same time. The process
MIT researchers create fibers that can detect and produce sound
Jul 13th
For centuries, “man-made fibers” meant the raw stuff of clothes and ropes; in the information age, it’s come to mean the filaments of glass that carry data in communications networks. But to Yoel Fink, an associate professor of materials science and principal investigator at MIT’s Research Lab of Electronics, the threads used in textiles and even optical fibers are much too passive. For the past decade, his lab has been working to develop fibers with ever more sophisticated properties, to enable fabrics that can interact with their environment.
Breakthrough Will Boost Semiconductor Performance
May 5th
UT Dallas researchers have laid the groundwork for attaching virtually any organic molecule to silicon, a technological feat that promises to greatly improve semiconductor devices’ performance in health care and solar power applications in particular. “This is very exciting to have been able to go beyond what was thought to be possible,” said Dr. Yves
Paper Describes Functional Nanomaterials For Medical, Health Devices
Apr 25th
A team led by researchers from North Carolina State University has published a paper that describes the use of a technique called atomic layer deposition to incorporate “biological functionality” into complex nanomaterials, which could lead to a new generation of medical and environmental health applications. For example, the researchers show how the technology can be
