por Jorge González | Nov 17, 2025 | New
Yes, carbon fiber is generally stronger than steel. Both its specific strength and absolute tensile strength generally are significantly higher than those of steel. Therefore, the short answer is that steel is stronger than carbon fiber in some ways — but that...
por Jorge González | May 12, 2025 | Getting technical
The promise of shape memory materials (SMMs) is, in many ways, an engineer’s dream: materials capable of undergoing large, reversible deformations and returning to a predefined shape when triggered by external stimuli such as heat, light, pressure or electricity. This...
por Soraya Adan | Feb 1, 2024 | Smart Content
Launched in 2017, Startup Booster has been organized in three different regions (Europe, USA, and Asia) and has already fostered the emergence of 900+ innovative projects from 60+ countries, 100 finalists, and 28 winners, including FibreCoat, Arevo, Continuous...
por Soraya Adan | Abr 20, 2023 | Smart Content
Las industrias de la automoción y la aeronáutica son dos de las más relevantes dentro del sector manufacturero en España, llegando a aportar entre ambas el 11% del PIB del país.La competitividad de estos 2 sectores y, en general, del sector manufacturero español...
por LlucMarti | Ago 18, 2022 | Story-time
The use of composite materials in military equipment started much earlier than you think! In about 1200 AD, Mongols invented the first composite bows made from a combination of wood, bamboo, bone, cattle tendons, horns, and silk bonded with natural pine...