If you've spent anytime around performance vehicles — cars, high speed boats, aircraft, bicycles, etc. — you've likely seen carbon fiber used somewhere in the construction. It might seem like wizardry ...

Growing up, kids dream about having a cool, carbon fiber car, but maturing is realizing that the unique material offers more than just sleek looks. Carbon fiber is created by repeatedly superheating ...

Carbon fibers consist of thin filaments (5–10 micrometers in diameter) made of long chains of carbon atoms arranged in a polycrystalline structure. These fibers contain 92–100 wt% anisotropic carbon ...

Carbon fiber looks easy to repaint, but multiple prep and finishing steps determine whether the result holds up or fails completely over time.

Carbon fiber has reached a point of borderline oversaturation, even trickling down to borderline-affordably priced performance cars in recent years. But even if we’re not longer as impressed by the ...

“The CarbonPro pickup box is the industry’s first use of carbon fiber for a pickup truck box. It is made from Teijin’s Sereebo carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) material. The CarbonPro ...

Process chain for new SMC structural simulation approach demonstrated for Spirit AeroSystems reference wing rib redesigned to use carbon fiber SMC (C-SMC). Photo Credit, all images: Simutence, ...