Innovation continues apace in textile design and development. Much of these advancements – building on the pioneering polymer work of Stephanie Kwolek, who invented Kevlar while at DuPont in the 1960s – are geared toward military applications, including l
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The big push in graphene research for electronics has been overcoming its lack of an inherent band gap. But silicon has another leg up on graphene when it comes to electronics applications: it can comparatively easily be p- and n-doped (positive and nega
Continue reading >>A Spanish fashion designer has developed the world's first spray-on clothing that can be worn, washed and worn again.Manel Torres joined forces with scientists at Imperial College London to invent the spray, which forms a seamless fabric on contact with t
Continue reading >>Solarmer Energy Inc. is developing plastic solar cells for portable electronic devices that will incorporate technology invented at the University of Chicago.The company is on track to complete a commercial-grade prototype later this year, said Dina Lozof
Continue reading >>Imagine for a moment that you’re a thief bent on stealing something really valuable – is a piece of cloth really going to seem like a dangerous barrier? It might be just that once thesmart fabricdeveloped at Berlin’s Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability a
Continue reading >>Nature is full of so many amazing things that often, the best ideas are a direct imitation of something in the natural world. Such is the case with a small startup calledNBD Nano. Their first product will be a self-filling water bottle that will give peop
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