New Zealand's government works to bolster the competitiveness of the country's world-famous wool sector, as demand grows for ...

Notably, the fibers exhibited remarkable performance, withstanding loads up to 56,000 times their own weight. In addition to simply memorizing shape, artificial muscle fibers can generate energy ...

The Challenge The Fabric Award, held at Milan’s Palazzo Giureconsulti, tasked seven emerging designers to use 10 meters of ...

Unifi's entrant at a technical-textiles trade show this week is aimed at the tough-fabric demands of the military, first ...

Studies leveraging NIR and CNNs report accuracies exceeding 95%, with some achieving perfect classification for pure fibers.

But polyester is the most widely used fiber on Earth, and along with other synthetic fibers accounts for about two-thirds of production worldwide. Tuesday is Earth Day, when people worldwide ...

Duke Kimbrell Fiber Innovation Center, which is located at Gaston College’s Kimbrell Campus in Belmont, was conceived when Parkdale Mills was conducting research to figure out how to make a ...

WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor “It’s not peculiar to me that we have products that are made with synthetic fibers that are plastic polymers, made with ingredients and solvents that ...

Additionally, the risk of complications at the donation site is high. Using synthetic materials like PHA fibers could be a solution to this problem," said Kopf. PHA fibers are also environmentally ...