Engineering
New textiles developed at Aalto University change shape when they heat up, giving designers a wide range of new options. In addition to offering adjustable esthetics, responsive smart fabrics could also help monitor people's ...
Feb 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The life cycle of textile products spanning from raw materials to fiber production, textile conversion, distribution and disposal contributes to 5%–10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, textile industry accounts ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Canadians trash about a billion pounds—nearly 500 million kilograms—of fashion and home items made of fabric each year, but a new grading system could help divert most of it from landfills.
Jan 23, 2023
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Business
The U.S. Navy is beginning to build 12 top-of-the-line nuclear submarines , with the first one scheduled to be completed by 2027. But it is missing a critical ingredient: many of an estimated 50,000 skilled workers to get ...
Jan 5, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The textile and apparel industries are among the fastest growing in the world, driving a significant part of the global economy. In 2021 in the EU alone, according to Statista, there were 143,000 textile and clothing manufacturing ...
Nov 7, 2022
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Engineering
A new process for digital printing on textiles, developed within a research project at the University of Borås, can now be an important part of the solution for the textile industry to deal with the enormous consumption ...
Nov 2, 2022
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Engineering
In recent years, material scientists have designed a wide range of innovative materials that could be used to create new technologies, including soft robots, controllers and smart textiles. These materials include artificial ...
Aug 8, 2022 feature
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Robotics
Engineers have developed a new class of smart textiles that can shape-shift and turn a two-dimensional material into 3D structures.
Jul 13, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Using a novel fabrication process, MIT researchers have produced smart textiles that snugly conform to the body so they can sense the wearer's posture and motions.
Jul 7, 2022
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Engineering
Electronically conductive fibers are already in use in smart textiles, but in a recently published research article ionically conductive fibers have proven to be of increasing interest. The so-called ionofibers achieve higher ...
Jun 13, 2022
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