Recycled carbon fiber used in the Fisker 22” wheel for the electric Ocean SUV!

 📢Saturday Spotlight!📢 Recycled carbon fiber used in the Fisker 22” wheel for the electric Ocean SUV!

@Fisker Inc's ambitious plans to relaunch itself as an electric-vehicle manufacturer are nearing a crucial inflection point as the 2023 Ocean SUV is unveiled at the 2021 Los Angeles auto show. Led by the company's namesake and CEO, @Henrik Fisker, the revived brand is focusing on sustainability and environmental responsibility with the Ocean, which utilizes reclaimed materials such as recycled plastic bottles to line the interior of the luxury SUV. 

Designed from start to finish by Henrik and his world-class team, the Fisker Ocean zero-emissions SUV is ready to disrupt the automotive world through its beautiful craftsmanship, ingenious engineering, innovation, affordability, and sustainability. Are you ready for your all-electric future? 

Here at Managing Composites, we certainly are! However, our all-electric future NEEDS some carbon!

  Luckily for us, Frisker is not going to leave us hanging: At launch, 5000 special-edition Ocean One models will be available, featuring unique 22-inch aerodynamic wheels that are made from recycled carbon fiber and aluminum. 😍

What do you think about this design? 🤪

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MIT Engineers Build Impossible Material: Stronger Than Steel But Light as Plastic

 Developed with the help of a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have developed a two-dimensional polymer that self-assembles into sheets, unlike other polymers that often form one-dimensional chains. 

Polymers that consist of all kinds of plastics are formed with chains of building blocks that are known as monomers. The chains grow by adding new molecules at their ends. After formation, the polymers can be shaped into 3D objects via the process of injection molding.

Scientists have often hypothesized that if polymers could be induced to grow into a 2D sheet, they’d be strong yet lightweight. However, previous failed attempts made them believe that achieving something like this was impossible. 

One of the reasons why this was the case, as if even one monomer flips up or down out of the plane of the growing sheet, the material would start to expand in three dimensions, not allowing a sheet-like structure to form. 

However, now researchers have come up with a novel polymerization process that allows them to create a two-dimensional sheet dubbed polyaramide. For the monomer building blocks, they use a compound dubbed melamine that contains a ring of carbon and nitrogen atoms. 

In perfect conditions, these monomers can grow into two dimensions, forming discs. The discs stack above each other, held together by hydrogen bonds between layers, whilst creating a stable and strong structure. 

Moreover, since the material is self-assembled in solution, it can be mass-produced by increasing the quantity of starting materials. They also demonstrated that they could coat surfaces with films of the material that they call 2DPA-1.

Researchers also discovered that the new material’s elastic modulus -- the force it takes to deform a material -- is between four and six times more than bulletproof glass. For destroying the material, the energy required is twice that of steel even though the material has just one-sixth the density of steel. 

The material is also impermeable to gases, thanks to the monomers that lock together, preventing molecules from getting in between them. 

Researchers are now looking into more detail on how the polymer is able to form 2D sheets while also playing with changing its molecular makeup to form other kinds of novel materials. 

Source:MIT

Lamborghini Essenza SCV12-CARBON FIBER FRAME

 📣Composites Showcase!📣

Meet the Lamborghini Essenza SCV12: The hypercar with a full carbon frame!

Lamborghini has reached another goal: the Essenza SCV12 is the first car on the market with a carbon fiber roll cage homologated according to the FIA Hypercar safety standards.

The Lamborghini Squadra Corse engineers have profoundly changed the standard production frame structure following extremely rigorous tests including over 20 static and dynamic tests.

The carbon integral body has been reinforced in several points since it has to support forces of over 12 tons without showing significant deformations. The decision to keep the carbon, and not steel, the load-bearing structure has also resulted in a gain in terms of overall weight and a considerable increase in passenger compartment space to offer optimum driving comfort.

“The Essenza SCV12 was designed as a ‘laboratory of ideas’ vehicle,” commented Giorgio Sanna, Lamborghini Head of Motorsport. “It has allowed us to use technical solutions usually typical of competition prototypes, such as the suspension installed directly on the load-bearing gearbox, an innovative solution for a GT vehicle. Moreover, the brand-new carbon integral body frame without steel rollbar was achieved with the technical collaboration of FIA, thanks to which we have undertaken a route that will lead to an exponential improvement of safety for drivers of GT vehicles in a future projection.” Another outstanding innovation is given by the cradle in the rear of the integral body, which houses the engine-gearbox assembly and that has increased torsional stiffness values to 20% higher than those of the Huracán GT3 EVO, resulting in extraordinary driving precision.

The first Lamborghini Essenza SCV12 units were delivered to customers in April 2021 and will continue until the end of 2022.

Source: The Native Lab

Ultralight eco-friendly carbon-fiber surfboard fins?

 It's time for our segment Endless Possibilities!

Ultralight eco-friendly carbon-fiber surfboard fins?

Designed by @Firewire Surfboards, the "Endorfins" is designed to be screwed into the fin box to secure the base of the fin and allow the carbon flex patterns to truly come to life. In addition, the fins are also designed to float so they can be retrieved from the ocean if needed. Each set is built with a base that is compatible with either FCSII or Futures boxes.

The FCSII compatible base will require two screws that will come with the fins. Endorfins with FCSII compatible bases will not click in and click out. Combining that knowledge, and several rounds of testing and adjusting over the past year and a half, they are excited to present Endorfins to the world.

The design of these fins is the culmination of many years and extensive experience with a variety of designs and templates. This unique flex pattern is created by a carbon twill, layered with an ultralight carbon veil over a PET core. The PET core is majority air resulting in fins so light they float on water.

Source: JEC Composites

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Michael Faraday Electric motor Invention

 Michael Faraday invented electric motors in 1821 and built this model of his electric motor in 1822.

On 3 September 1821, Faraday observed the circular rotation of a wire as it was attracted and repelled by magnetic poles. He sketched in his notebook a clockwise rotation around the south pole of the magnet, and the reverse around the north pole. "Very satisfactory," he wrote in his entry on the day's experiment, "but make more sensible apparatus."

Faraday continued experimenting into the fall of 1831, this time with a permanent magnet. He discovered that he could produce a constant current by rotating a copper disk between the two poles of a permanent magnet. This was the first dynamo and the direct ancestor of truly useful electric motors.

Credit: IEEE

WOVEN CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE

 📢Microscopic Mondays!📢

Today we have another microscopy that looks like modern art!

This picture shows a post-tear/delamination of a woven carbon fiber composite sample! It was taken using a darkfield mode that delivers high contrast and enables viewing the half section of the delaminated composite ply, providing unique insights on the distribution of the epoxy within the sample!

Beautiful isn't it? 😍

Source: ZEISS

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