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Taiwanese company Graft has launched a super-lightweight new electric off-road motorcycle – or is it a pedal-free ebike on steroids? The EO.12 puts out a meaty 20 kW, while weighing just 50 kg thanks to neat touches like carbon wheels. 
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Classic Recreations is again tuning its vintage expertise to an icon of American motoring and this time with a decidedly high-performance twist, with a new line of Shelby GT500CR models featuring carbon fiber bodies for the first time.
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carbon fiber is moving mainstream. How soon for graphene? JB
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London’s Victoria & Albert Museum has unveiled an incredibly intricate robotically woven and biologically inspired carbon-fiber pavilion in its courtyard.
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Robots weaving buldings. Don't you just love it! JB
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With incredible lightness, stiffness and strength, carbon fiber has a lot going for it, but even the dreamiest of materials have their shortcomings. One scientists have been working to address is carbon fiber's tendency to burn at high temperatures, and an international team of researchers has now…
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This is innovation at the verge and a solution to wide ranging applications of the material. Plus it sequesters both salt and CO2 by locking them up in long-lived products. JB
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For decades, scientists have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power. Now, for the first time, University of Wisconsin–Madison materials engineers have created carbon nanotube transistors that outperform state-of-the-art silicon transistors.
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It was all talk until now. Thanks to U of Wisconsin, Madison, we may now have a pahway to carbon nanotube integrated chips. With 5 times the performance of silicon, they would definitely keep Moore's Law alive for another generation. JB
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Looks d perfect for risky young adults. JB