High Performance Materials Institute

FSU researchers develop thin heat shield for superfast aircraft

Published: November 12, 2019 | 1:48 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Professor Zhiyong (Richard) Liang and research faculty member Ayou Hao holding pieces of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites coated with a protective heat shield made of a carbon nanotube sheet that was heated to a temperature of 1,900 degrees Celsius.

The world of aerospace increasingly relies on carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites to build the structures of satellites, rockets and jet aircraft. But the life of those materials is limited by how they handle heat. A team of FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers from Florida State University’s High-Performance Materials Institute is developing a design for […]

FSU experts available to discuss 50th anniversary of moon landing

Published: July 15, 2019 | 3:18 pm | Posted in: Expert Pitches

On July 20, 1969, four days after lifting off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edward “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. landed Apollo 11’s lunar module, Eagle, on the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility, becoming the first humans to touch down on the lunar surface. Fifty years later, the Apollo 11 mission is […]

Taking charge: Researchers team up to make better batteries

Published: July 12, 2019 | 11:07 am | Posted in: News, Science & Technology

A Florida State University and Cornell University research team found that batteries built from inexpensive and safe components can deliver three to four times the punch of batteries built with today’s state-of-the-art lithium ion technology. The researchers’ work is published today in Nature Communications. A. Nijamudheen, a postdoctoral researcher at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, and […]

FSU-developed foam could offer NFL players powerful protection against head injuries

Published: April 24, 2019 | 12:45 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Changchun Zeng, an associate professor of engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and a researcher at Florida State's High-Performance Materials Institute.

A next-generation foam technology developed by engineers at Florida State University could soon be a key component in safer and more effective football helmets, thanks to a new grant from the National Football League’s Play Smart. Play Safe. health and safety initiative. The technology, called auxetic foam, was invented by Changchun Zeng, an associate professor […]

From the materials lab to Doak Campbell Stadium

Published: February 7, 2019 | 1:29 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

How A Foam Developed By Florida State Researchers Made It Onto The Feet Of FSU Football, Softball Players When a technology developed by university researchers is licensed and integrated into a commercial product, that’s considered a resounding success. But when that same product eventually benefits student-athletes at the researchers’ own university, that’s cause for special […]

FSU center uses carbon nanotubes for big research gains

Published: December 6, 2017 | 10:42 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Graduate students Meagan Raley (seated), Marquese Pollard and Tolulope Sosan work at the High-Performance Materials Institute through their program at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

It’s stronger than steel, yet only a fraction of its weight, and has a size 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. It is a carbon nanotube. For more than a decade, researchers at the Florida State University High-Performance Materials Institute have been laying the groundwork for a number of prototypes involving […]

New motion sensors a major step toward low-cost, high-performance wearable technology

Published: November 16, 2017 | 12:01 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have developed a class of breakthrough motion sensors that could herald a near future of ubiquitous, fully integrated and affordable wearable technology. In a paper published in the journal Materials and Design, engineers from FSU’s High-Performance Materials Institute, in collaboration with scientists from Institut National des Sciences Appliques […]

The Big Story: April 17, 2017

Published: April 17, 2017 | 1:22 pm | Posted in: The Big Story

Florida State University’s High-Performance Materials Institute and the Florida A&M University–Florida State University College of Engineering are joining a major multiuniversity project funded by NASA that will focus on developing technologies crucial to human exploration in deep space.

High-Performance Materials Institute to play major role in deep space exploration

Published: April 13, 2017 | 10:32 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

10 ways Florida State University is changing the world

Published: September 15, 2016 | 12:06 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology, University News

Do you think cancer-fighting drugs are important? How about expanding our understanding of the universe? What about finding ways to help the victims of human trafficking? These and many other critical societal issues are being studied by Florida State University researchers every day. Let’s take a quick peek at 10 of the ways FSU is […]