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19 Apr 2024

CFP Composites
CFP Composites is a UK headquartered manufacturer and developer of ultra-high temperature carbon fibre composites. IDTechEx spoke to CFP to learn more about its materials and one of its key target applications, the electric vehicle (EV) battery space.
2 Apr 2024

Taxiing For Takeoff: The Promise of eVTOLs
Flying cars are very easy to hype. Most images of the future almost always include mass mobility in the air. It is one of the staples of any depiction of advanced modern societies and a trope of almost every science fiction movie or book (however dystopian). It is an exciting time where the level of technological advancement is reaching the stage of making electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft a feasible reality.
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29 Jan 2024

Dow: Fire Protection Materials for Electric Vehicle Batteries
Dow is a large materials supplier and the world's largest supplier of silicone products. It provides a wide variety of products to a huge number of applications. At Nepcon 2024 in Tokyo, IDTechEx spoke to Dow to learn more about some of its fire protection materials for electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
21 Apr 2023

AI for Sustainability: How Materials Informatics is Driving Change
Materials informatics is the application of data-driven methods, including machine learning techniques, to the field of materials science. This important part of the digital transformation toolbox for the materials industry has wide-ranging benefits, but the ability to enhance the sustainability of materials and their manufacturing processes could be the most impactful of these.
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5 Apr 2023

Kuraray: Vectran
Kuraray is a major chemical company. IDTechEx spoke with Dr Forrest Sloan (Manager, International Marketing) about Vectran, Kuraray's high-performance yarn spun from liquid crystal polymer.