Our work on composite repair was highlighted in CompositesWorld review of the past ACCE meeting in Detroit. As the contributor wrote: “In the cool-but-not-yet-commercial category, Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Va., U.S.) presented new research (partially supported by the Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research (Boston, Mass., U.S.) on a method for through-thickness reinforcement (TTR) and repair of carbon fiber/epoxy sandwich panel composites…. More work is needed, but the research is intriguing and could eventually lead to a non-destructive repair technique.”