On Lambs Lane in Southeast Austin, the words “Google Fiber” can set neighbors off into a firestorm of anger, frustration and even tears. For months, more than a dozen neighbors on the modest street ...

A new Cedar Rapids, Iowa business, Regen Fiber, owned by logistics solution company Travero, is launching an innovative way to recycle decommissioned wind turbine blades. Regen Fiber says it has ...

A manufacturing process that accelerates the production of fiber-optic components has been patented by Lumenon Innovative Lightwave Technology Inc. of Quebec, Canada. While the fiber-optic industry is ...

Carbon fibers are usually produced on an industrial scale from polyacrylonitrile (PAN). The stabilization and carbonization of the fibers takes place with long dwell times in high-temperature furnaces ...

The new process, called gel electrospinning, is described in a paper by MIT professor of chemical engineering Gregory Rutledge and postdoc Jay Park. The paper appears online and will be published in ...