Using plants and trees to make products such as paper or ethanol leaves behind a residue called lignin, a component of plant cell walls. That leftover lignin isn’t good for much and often ge... Read more
New material created at Rice University with graphene oxide flakes Large flakes of graphene oxide are the essential ingredient in a new recipe for robust carbon fiber created at Rice Univers... Read more
The only reinforcing material that is stronger than cellulose nanocrystals is a carbon nanotube, which costs about 100 times as much The Forest Products Laboratory of the US Forest Service h... Read more
Eight times stronger than aluminum while 66 percent lighter The purveyors of fine nanotech-enabled lightweight boats at Zyvex Technologies have been in touch to tell Gizmag about their lates... Read more
The Yikebike is the smallest transportation “appliance” we’ve ever ridden The Yikebike is a miniature, electric penny farthing made of carbon fiber capable of 25 km/h (15 m... Read more
Tough, cheap and 100 percent recyclable Spartanburg, South Carolina, is home to one of the largest privately owned chemical and textile research establishments in the world, Milliken & C... Read more
While advocates proclaim the superior immersive qualities of 3D, the current crop of 3D TVs can actually have the opposite effect on many people by giving the impression of peering into a bo... Read more
BUSINESS is a field not of theory but of practice. The central intellectual inquiry of the science of management is simply this: What works? That, it seems, is the best way to examine the st... Read more
Hungarian designers Antro are aiming to introduce a new fuel efficient vehicle to the consumer market by 2012 which (like the recently covered HumanCar) will rely on the muscle-power of driv... Read more