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October 20, 2011
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New Power for Smart Garments Scientists in the US have taken the first steps towards designing a flexible and lightweight fabric that can act as a power supply for smart garments.   |
Chemistry World
October 26, 2010 |
Waterproof Cotton That Can go Through the Wash Chinese researchers have made cotton fabric that is completely impervious to water and can be put through the laundry without losing its superhydrophobic properties, overcoming a key obstacle in the commercialisation of these highly waterproof materials. |
Chemistry World
September 2, 2015
Carolyn Devlin |
Shrinking hydrogel reinforces fabric for soft yet strong material A hydrogel -- fabric composite that can support a load almost three times greater than the fabric alone has been made by scientists. |
Chemistry World
November 19, 2007
Lewis Brindley |
Spinning Out Stronger Nanotubes Scientists have devised a new way to make super-strength carbon nanotube fibers. |
Chemistry World
July 14, 2014
Tim Wogan |
First experimental evidence of a boron fullerene The first experimental evidence for a boron fullerene has been produced by researchers in the US and China. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2011
Yuandi Li |
Self-cleaning fabrics now even cleaner US scientists have made a self-cleaning fabric that lasts longer, shows better antibacterial action and is more comfortable to wear than current materials. |
Chemistry World
March 23, 2015
Sonja Hampel |
Flexible polymer threads set to light up clothing Fashions on the catwalk could soon become a whole lot funkier with the development of new light-emitting threads that can be knitted or woven into textiles. |
Lucire
August 8, 2007 |
Emphasizing Organic The world's biggest clothing retailer, Hennes & Mauritz, ups its organic cotton usage for its autumn-winter 2007-2008 season. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Neil Savage |
Electronic Cotton Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers |
Chemistry World
January 11, 2013
Laura Howes |
Nanotube fiber production in a spin No, that light bulb isn't floating in thin air, it's suspended by two 24 m thick fibers spun from carbon nanotubes. An international collaboration led by Matteo Pasquali, at Rice University in the US, has developed a method of manufacturing high-performance CNT fibers using wet spinning. |
National Defense
March 2006 |
Ceramic Armor Advance Achieved A researcher has perfected a process that makes boron carbide harder and poreless in high temperature manufacturing. The result is a material with remarkable ballistic armor properties. |
Chemistry World
January 28, 2009
Manisha Lalloo |
Ultra-pure boron structure discovered Scientists have characterised a new form of elemental boron - a notoriously hard element to synthesise in a pure form - and found that ionic bonding helps hold the structure together. |
Chemistry World
January 5, 2011
Jon Cartright |
Silk woven into transistors Researchers in Sweden and Spain have created transistors woven from modified silk fibres. The breakthrough bodes well for a new generation of electronic circuits that can be incorporated into fabrics or inserted into biological environments. |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2014
Dannielle Whittaker |
Electrical component hitches a ride with mechanical support A new composite material that can simultaneously withstand mechanical loads and store electrical energy has been created by scientists in the UK and Belgium. |
Chemistry World
October 16, 2012
Ross McLaren |
The future of fashion Researchers from the Republic of Korea have developed an energy harvesting device that can be incorporated into clothing to allow the wearer to generate electricity as they move and from static build-up in their clothing. |
Technology Research News
August 13, 2003 |
Carbon wires expand nano toolkit Scientists looking for building blocks to form electronics and machines that are not much bigger than molecules have gained a new tool. |
Outside
March 2006 |
Let the Good Times Roll Whether you and your posse are catching the train out of Santa Fe or heading into the Australian outback this Spring, you owe it to yourself, and your fellow passengers, to ride with style. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2011
Jacob Roche |
Don't Buy In to Cotton's Head Fake Cotton prices are falling, but expect retailers to continue struggling. |
Chemistry World
September 8, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Nanotubes: bend me, shape me, anyway you want me Curved, twisted and overhanging microscopic structures have been made by US researchers from carbon nanotubes by exploiting capillary action. |
