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  University spearheads three projects out of the 12 teams chosen for Phase II of the Carbon Fibre Challenge, with a new target to produce the carbon fibers from bitumen at a lab scale. Dr. Md Kibria, an assistant professor for the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the Schulich School of Engineering for the University of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), is leading one of three projects selected in the  Carbon Fibre Challenge (CFGC) Phase II  competition conducted by Alberta Innovates (Alberta, Canada) and the Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN, Canada).  The three-phase competition is aimed at accelerating the development of carbon fiber derived from Alberta’s vast supply of oilsands bitumen, a black viscous mixture of hydrocarbons obtained naturally or as a residue from petroleum distillation. Currently, Kibria and his team have been working with asphaltenes, — molecular substances found in ...

  📢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...

  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 ...

  📣 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 techni...

  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...

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  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