China has employed a two-step mapping strategy—cropland mapping followed by cotton extraction—to produce 10m cotton maps of Xinjiang, its largest cotton production region.
Scientists have used a tiny nanofilament to break down two common dye pollutants under the visible light spectrum. The team used x-ray diffraction to characterise the arrangement of atoms in the nanomaterial.
Deakin University in collaboration with innovation company Xefco has come up with a manufacturing solution that utilises an advanced plasma coating process which is completely water-free, producing no water discharge.
Fabric blends in clothing could soon be sorted easy if a proposal by a multi-disciplinary team of students to use an electron beam to segregate different fabric components through electrostatic separation finds takers.
Wearables designed by Rice University engineers co-opt haptics, or communication based on the sense of touch, that could soon help the hearing impaired, in navigation and even those with limited vision among several other tasks.
A study by scientists at Brunel University London is studying some microorganisms and their plastic-degrading enzymes which could be engineered to have even better activity.
In what could be a new chapter of next-generation smart clothes, researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have come up with an energy-harvesting versatile fabric that can generate electricity from sweat and body movements.
In what could be a game-changing research, a bunch of young chemists from Europe promise to revolutionise sustainability in the apparel industry by breaking down the polyester in polyester-cotton blended garments while preserving the cotton fibres.
Scientists at Cornell Unoversity in the US have developed a chemistry toolbox to clean up a formidable environmental foe: polyester textile waste. The concept has the potential to disrupt the textiles and apparel production business,
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.
