Singapore

Inspired by the scales of pangolins and armadillos, scientists at NTU Singapore have developed a patent-pending innovative wearable fabric that can quickly be made into medical devices or soft robotics, such as limbs for drones.

A Singaporean univ and luxury group Kering have joined hands to conduct studies that aim to provide insights into the current state of nature and climate practices at corporations across the Asia-Pacific region, as also establish baseline for strategies and reporting, highlight industry trends, and identify areas for improvements.

The spider’s web-spinning process has been used by researchers at the National University of Singapore to develop strong, stretchable, and electrically conductive soft fibres that can be used to make smart, functional textiles.

The Global Fashion Summit: Singapore Edition 2022 will be hosted in Singapore on 3 November 2022. The new edition in Southeast Asia is the first time that the event will be hosted outside of Copenhagen since its inception in 2009, the organisers have announced.

In a bid to promote innovation in textile recycling and use research findings to address practical issues, the Singapore-based Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has set up a collaborative textile research centre.

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a stretchable and waterproof ‘fabric’ that turns energy generated from body movements into electrical energy.

A team of researchers in Hong Kong have developed a highly functional textile from recycled common plastic waste.