The aerospace sector is targeting significant efficiency increases, reducing fuel consumption and emissions while enhancing safety. Smart and adaptive morphing wings are designed to seamlessly change ...

Engineers have developed a technique that causes a composite material to become stiffer and stronger on-demand when exposed to ultraviolet light. Engineers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the ...

Over the years winglets have been an aerodynamic gimmick, style statement and retrofit craze, but now the fuel-saving devices are on most commercial aircraft as they leave the factory. The same path ...

(Nanowerk News) Engineers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have developed a technique that causes a composite material to become stiffer and stronger on-demand when ...