Graduate student Jiaxing Huang was fooling around with his digital camera in the lab one evening when he made an unexpected discovery. He took a flash photo of a vial of polyaniline nanofibers and ...

Figure 1: Typical TEM images showing polyaniline nanofibres before and after exposure to a camera flash. Figure 2: A polyaniline nanofibre film before and after welding. Figure 3: SEM image showing ...

Components for the aerospace or transportation industry are typical applications for fibre-reinforced thermoplastic polymer composites. These components often require the production of large, complex ...

Welding Handbook, Volume 3, reflects the dramatic changes brought into welding processes over the past decade due to the emergence of new welding techniques and advanced materials. Included are ...

Several techniques are available for joining thermoplastic composites, including resistance welding and ultrasonic welding. While resistance welding uses Joule heating inside an electrically ...

Everyone’s talking about Industry 4.0 nowadays. It’s a hot topic for society, politics and the economy. But what about digitisation in metal-working companies? What does it mean for joining technology ...