04/26/2024
Advancing Composite Recycling: Towards Circular Economy ♻️
Exciting developments in composite recycling! A recent study explores recycling fiber-reinforced composites, crucial for lightweighting in wind, aerospace, and automotive industries.
Key findings emphasize preserving fiber length and ensuring uniform mechanical properties. However, challenges persist in addressing microstructural inhomogeneity due to poor fiber dispersion.
Addressing this challenge is essential for realizing the full potential of composite remanufacturing and advancing towards a circular economy.
Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44296-024-00006-y
Fiber-reinforced composites are becoming ubiquitous as a way of lightweighting in the wind, aerospace, and automotive industries, but current recycling technologies fall short of a circular economy. In this work, fiber-reinforced composites made of recycled carbon fiber and polyphenylene sulfide wer...