From electric planes that can only fly for so long to electric cars that need to pull over for a recharge every few hundred miles, heavy, bulky batteries are a huge, limiting factor in how far these ...

Using reinforcing carbon fibre both as part of a composite material and electrode in lithium ion structural battery could see major improvements in electric vehicles and aircraft Structural batteries ...

Benteler International has patented a method for manufacturing motor vehicle structural components using extruded multichamber hollow profiles. The process involves straightening non-linear regions of ...

Boeing 787 Dreamliner will be First Commercial Airplane to Fly with Certified Additive-Manufactured Titanium Parts in Structural Applications OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Norsk Titanium AS, the ...

Progress in materials chemistry has often come from changing what things are made of, yet today we understand that how those components are arranged is just as important ...

Many non-structural components in buildings such as furnishing, equipment, electrical and mechanical fixtures, architectural features (e.g., suspended ceilings), storage cabinets, shelves, and glass ...