The highly flammable attributes of the most commonly used cotton textile can be checked with a new single-step, cost-efficient complex coating devised by researchers at the Texas A&M University.
A new study that evaluated textile susceptibility to fungal contamination during transit found that while cotton and suede are most susceptible to fungal contamination, leather, polyester, and imitation suede were found to be the least susceptible.
Israel’s Shenkar, an academic institution, has developed an innovative polymeric fibre or thread, that aims to assist future soldiers on the battlefield in dealing with toxic gas attacks by changing the colour of their clothing from yellow to green.
The 2024 Consumer Returns in the Retail Industry report says returns represent a significant cost to retailers in the United States and there is an urgent need for retailers to adapt and evolve their strategies.
A collaborative research by six universities has come up with ‘SWEET’ — inkjet-printed, eco-friendly e-textiles that shows that wearable electronic textiles can be both sustainable and biodegradable.
Despite the ubiquity of intertwined materials, scientists struggled to understand their mechanics and to predict the shapes that they adopt at rest. But now, researchers have come up with a simplified description of the mechanical properties of these materials that helps to infer how they behave.
You could soon power your garment gizmos without unfashionably toting around a solid bulky battery. In a significant development for wearable technology, a collaborative team of researchers has developed a process to print a textile energy grid that can be charged wirelessly.
Scientists have developed a new fibre fragmentation scale which, if adopted by industry, could be displayed on clothing labels, similar to the way many food manufacturers display calorie information on packaging.
Technical textiles for construction sector can now use waste carpet material and other discarded textiles including clothing fabrics and firefighting uniforms to make concrete stronger. Field trials are on.
A research group, led by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has come up with an ordinary silk thread, coated with a conductive plastic material, that shows promising properties for turning textiles into electricity generators.
