Today, we have come to understand ourselves as composites often contradictory and internally incompatible.

Here recent developments in the field of polymer nano composites and some of their applications have been reviewed.

On April 1, 2004, Scaled Composites received the first license for suborbital rocket flights to be issued by the US Office of Commercial Space Transportation.

The quite different physical properties of composites gives designers a much greater freedom in shaping parts, which is why composite products often look different to conventional products.

Take a virtual tour of Medellin, Colombia through illustrations, picture composites and images of the different locations around the city, all placed within a clickable map in Medellin Illustrated .

Carbon fiber reinforced polymer, carbon fiber reinforced plastic or carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP or often simply carbon fiber, or even carbon), is an extremely strong and light fiber reinforced polymer which contains carbon fibers.

This is built by composites. It's a single element which rotates around to create a holistic element, and this is a carbon fiber handrail which is only supported in two places.