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Synopsis: Textile, leather & fashion: Textile:

Using two flywheels spinning in opposite directions means the team of engineers at Lit Motors can cancel out

These new fabrics are quintessentially fluid, and can respond to changing urban demands. For example, Paris Habitat, the capitalslargest owner of social housing is using body heat from the Paris Metro to heat buildings.

By rethinking the nature of the fabrics that a city is made up of, they may be better able to respond to our ever-changing needs,

These infectious diseases have developed antibiotic resistance and spread despite the best efforts of staff, mainly through textiles like bed linen.

by using a revolutionary nanotechnology to treat bed linen and other textiles. The European Nanobond consortium consisted of six companies and two scientific partners.

It developed durable antimicrobial textiles with a polymeric coating in the nano range thickness in other words

The textiles have been tested clinically to withstand industrial-strength laundry cycles, and the treatment lasts for the entire lifetime of the product.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) now warns that textiles act as a microbial harbour for superbugs.

these antimicrobial textiles will resist, and not spread the infections, says Nanobond project coordinator Patrice Vandendaele, from Belgium-based Devan Chemicals,

Vandendaele said Nanobond sought to develop easy-to-clean textiles that last long use few chemicals, keep patients healthy and avoid cross-contamination.

so they would glue better to the surface of the textiles, Vandendaele says. The antimicrobial surface effectively acts physically rather than chemically.

a glue system to attach to the textiles, and an antimicrobial part to pierce the membrane of any bacteria cell that it touches. t works like a spike bursting a balloon,

what lands on the textiles. t also means that articles treated with the new technology will have a longer natural lifetime through protection against damage and spoilage,

universities and small and medium sized companies with specialist expertise in areas like textile and aeronautics."High-tech textiles have advanced a lot in the last few years.

Even bulletproof vests now use composite textiles, "said Zangani.""For this application of the technology, we needed blast protection, first of all,

ballistic fibres with hybrid textiles from lightweight fibres, including aramid (a kind of strong, heat-resistant synthetic fibre) and carbon.

"We used a multilayered structure of textiles that provided enough resistance to fully contain the gas expansion

with the required electronics and software being integrated eventually into clothes and clothing accessories. Researchers involved in the Biotex project in Dublin are searching for an appropriate method to analyse perspiration.

The prototype is a piece of fabric with a fluidic channel along which a ph sensor, conductivity sensor, sodium sensor and temperature sensors are set.

But difficult problems still exist in integrating soft textiles with hard electronics and even with chemicals.

Most rayon, viscose, modal, lyocell and other trademarked cellulosic fabrics start their journey as trees.

which highlights key endangered forest otspotsthat it says should be protected from the impacts of the dissolving pulp and viscose sectors.

Patagonia and Stella Mccartney, have committed to eliminate their use of fabrics that contain endangered forest fiber;

advance long-term conservation solutions and alternative fabric options that are more sustainable such as recycled fabrics

##The technology can be embedded in any porous material such as cloth potentially opening the door for wider applications says Collins. He envisions smart scrubs for health care workers that can sense exposure to a virus;

or smart clothing that tells a runner she s getting dehydrated.####This opens a lot of possibilities##says Collins.##It could give people a lot of valuable information very quickly.##

#Fabric dissolves to deliver HIV drug faster Bioengineers have developed a new way to protect women from HIV medicated,

disappearing fabric that could be used minutes before having sex. The new method spins the drug into silklike fibers that quickly dissolve when in contact with moisture, releasing higher doses of the drug than possible with other topical materials such as gels or creams

previously found that electrically spun cloth could be dissolved to release drugs. These new results build upon that research,

SPINNING THE FABRIC The team created the soft fibers using a process called electrospinning. They first dissolved a polymer

A palm-sized swatch of the fabric takes about five minutes to make. Anti-HIV drugs such as maraviroc can take a while to dissolve,

These emerging threads have Kuo hopeful researchers will eventually be able to find the way to ngage certain circuits of the brain to lead to a hardware upgrade.

and his colleagues designedicroscopic posts of the Silly Putty component polydimethylsiloxane serve as the threads.

but they replaced the magnetic bias with a traveling wave spinning around the device. Another unique feature is that the new circulator can be tuned in real time over a broad range of frequencies a major advantage over conventional circulators. ith this technology we can incorporate tunable nonreciprocal components in mobile platformssays

For example if we want to understand the genetics of how silk is produced we must first understand how silk worms evolved over time

because the threads we formed have a structure that has never been seen beforeays study leader John V. Badding a professor of chemistry at Penn State.

as if an incredible jeweler has strung together the smallest possible diamonds into a long miniature necklacebadding says. ecause this thread is diamond at heart we expect that it will prove to be extraordinarily stiff extraordinarily strong

He describes the thread s width as phenomenally small only a few atoms across hundreds of thousands of times smaller than an optical fiber enormously thinner that an average human hair. heory by our coauthor Vin Crespi

of the benzene molecules link themselves together at room temperature to make a thread is shocking to chemists

#How to make carbon thread without clumps Made into fibers single-walled carbon nanotubesâ line up like a fistful of raw spaghetti noodles thanks to a new process.

Left to their own devices carbon nanotubes form clumps that are perfectly wrong for turning into the kind of strong conductive fibers needed for projects ranging from nanoscale electronics to macro-scale power grids.

stretchable graphene oxide fibers that are scrolled easily into yarns and have strengths approaching that of Kevlar. This method opens up multiple possibilities for useful products.

Cellulose biomaterials might be used to create biodegradable plastic bags textiles and wound dressings; flexible batteries made from electrically conductive paper;

They are now using a wide range of materials including polymers fabrics and even papers.

and squeezing the fabric of the universe would give rise to the telltale twisted polarization patterns of B modes.

chemicals on clothes and luggage could improve security at airport checkpoints researchers say. ince this method uses a single beam

or surface of clothes or luggagedantus says. he resonant pulse and the shadow pulse are always in balance

Since 1996 farmers worldwide have planted more than 1 billion acres (400 million hectares) of genetically modified corn and cotton that produce insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt for short.

which evolved resistance rapidly to Bt cotton in India but not in the US#Tabashnik says.#

#Our nanotechnology produces entanglements that are millions of times more dense than woven products such as fabrics

In addition this mechanism could be used to describe other large spinning astronomical bodies with large-scale magnetic fields such as galaxies.

he washing machine terrible we need your helpwashing clothes, she told 200 senior citizens interested in nursing home jobs or family caregiving advice.

The floor was awash in the flotsam of three freshmen clothes, backpacks, homework, packages of Chips Ahoy and Cap Crunch Crunch Berries.

and will adhere to surfaces as diverse and supple as rubber, paper, cotton T-shirts, or a leaf off an oak tree.##

Rather than a trio of individual seats, each made of several pieces of fabric and foam, Morph is described better as a bench.

A single piece of fabric is stretched across to form the seats, and another forms the back of the chair.

and dividers to clamp the fabric in place. Instead of moving the entire seat back to adjust the pitch of the chair,

mechanized seat formers are positioned under the fabric, allowing users to decide the recline and support that best fits them.

and completely customizable fabric that comes in any desired shape, with no fabric waste. Video)##By using a spray technique, latex,

cotton or other fibers are extruded seamlessly to form layers of a breathable fabric, ideal for usage in sportswear, bandages and undergarments.

The density of the outputted fabric is controlled easily by preset, so both mesh-like, delicate fabrics and heavier,

Other materials such as teflon and silicon can also be loaded into the machine to produce different fabrics and textiles (and maybe even#invisible#ones

it s probably just as capable of producing a#sleek men s suit#as it would a basic cotton henley,

Absorption into our clothes, body, and environment.####The question of how best to power that next step,

Imprint has also been in talks about the use of its batteries in clothes andweird parts of your body like your eye

#We will be 3d printing our clothes in 10 years: Ray Kurzweil Openknit 3d printing is one of those new things that gets hyped all the damn time.

In less than ten years, you're probably going to be able to print your own open source clothes for a few cents,

As of 2014, digital fabricators that make clothes, such as knitting machine Openknit, are already available and inexpensive;

it costs about $700 to build your own Openknit machine, with both the hardware and software still in the do-it-yourself stage.

Called Do Knit Yourself, it s currently got four designs available that have thei m in the Matrix on the Nebuchadnezzar type of thing going on around the edges,

Eventually, printing clothes is going to be as easy as ordering a burger and fries from your smart watch.

print blue-t-shirt (with recycled clothes matter) for tomorrow. The cheap printing of socks and underwear doesn t look that far off, except that, unsurprisingly,

and buy clothes like Martin Starr's character Gilfoyle disrupted that hotel bathroom in Silicon valley.

giving people the ability to create their own clothes is going to destroy the industry. Just like the home sewing machine has?

The techno-futurist pointed out that, like other industries, Big Fashion had damn well better get used to the idea they're going to need to change,

Andrew Cotton from Devon recently surfed one of the largest recorded waves around 24m (80ft) off the coast of Portugal. t a good way to get people in to surfing.

The gene takes its name from the entity in Greek mythology called lotho who was one of the ateswho were supposed to control the thread of people lives.

providing a possible way to imagine a world not woven of this fabric. The new shape is intriguing,

#Luna Wash cleans dirty clothes right in the hamper Luna Wash It doesn t matter

and steam to coax your clothes clean. To get the wash going, you first fill the Luna Wash with a small amount of water and plop it down into your laundry.

The surrounding clothes relax in the heat, letting go of the dirt on their fibers.

the Luna Wash finishes its cycle by blowing your#fresh-cleaned#clothes dry with hot air.

and one that could get even the laziest of bachelors to wash their clothes. The only downside we can see,

is that it would leave you clothes as wrinkled as a raisin in the desert.

and fold our clothes for us, we d have this laundry day problem solved. Via Dvice Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat t

The last 18 months have seen redesign after redesign of the glove textiles, hardware and software and we have arrived finally at a point where we can make them available to others through this Kickstarter.

It great to see so much discussion of this technology on social media and the comments thread.

and a protein derived from silk called fibroin layering them together just like in nature.

which was developed as part of the Royal College of Art's Innovation Design Engineering course in collaboration with Tufts University silk lab,

is made from chloroplasts that are suspended in a silk protein matrix. The chloroplasts are derived from plant cells,

and the silk protein is extracted from natural silk fibers. Like the leaves of a plant, the material requires only exposure to sunlight and a small amount of water to produce oxygen."

"Silk Leaf is the first man-made biological leaf, "claimed Melchiorri.""It's very light, low energy-consuming,

the Silk Leaf could also be used as building material to produce clean air for buildings. Melchiorri has developed even some simple home uses for the material,

and other structures that are lined with Silk Leaf material. You can view a video presentation of the incredible Silk Leaf below w

#BMW offers free (and fast) EV charging Thinking about buying an electric car but worried about range and places to plug in?

#'Yarn muscles'100 times stronger than human muscles Using just coiled fishing line and sewing thread a team of scientists has developed a way to create super-strong artificial muscles.

The fiber muscles can lift 100 times as much as human muscles of the same length

and sewing thread (usually twisting with the aid of a power drill). The twisted fiber creates an artificial muscle that can drive a heavy rotor at a speed of more than 10000 revolutions per minute.

Baughman has made artificial muscles out of carbon nanotube yarns before but those are much more expensive and complicated to make.

As with all artificial muscles the yarn muscles can't convert electrical to mechanical energy very efficiently yet.

and why we cannot detect any curvature in the fabric of space (other than the tiny indentations caused by massive objects such as black holes).

though the current process can only create threads that perform a single type of task,

Specifically, the molecule, called Brichos, sticks to threads made up of malfunctioning proteins, called amyloid fibrils,

By doing so, it stops these threads from coming into contact with other proteins, thereby helping to avoid the formation of highly toxic clusters that enable the condition to proliferate in the brain.

the multifunction handheld device used by Starfleet officers to analyze just about any material and resolve dangling plot threads with pseudoscientific expository dialogue.

#Spinning out a company has been the best way to validate the technology especially with novel power-electronics hardware Dawson says.

and cloth notoriously difficult features to animate realistically for films including he Hobbitand Disney angled. he eye is very good at picking up what physical and what not,

it can resemble rope or thread, drizzling onto a surface in wavelike patterns. Reis wondered if the same code could be adopted to simulate the coiling of cables. e realized that I using geometry to scale up and down problems,

spinning out nanofibers for use in water filters body armor and smart textiles; or propulsion systems for fist-sized nanosatellites.

The researchers rigged an array of coils to an elastic cuff attaching each coil to a small thread linked to the cuff.

Between 60 and 160 C the coils contracted pulling the attached threads and tightening the cuff.

For instance an array of coils may be incorporated into the center of a suit with each coil attached to a thread that radiates to the suit s extremities.

As the coils activate they could pull on the attached threads much like the strings of a puppet to tighten

Since the material is flexible Wang says that it may even be woven into fabric to create rain-resistant clothing.

Surrounded by a circular 35-foot-long inflatable shell made of the same heavy-duty fabric used in blimps

In 2012, Avila and two MIT students also fixed issues with the threads on the sheller drive shaft:

coming to a sudden halt and putting stress on the threads, causing them to fail.

the sheller stopped at a more gradual pace, reducing thread stress. All shellers could then be modified,

The new approach uses yarns, made from nanowires of the element niobium, as the electrodes in tiny supercapacitors (which are essentially pairs of electrically conducting fibers with an insulator between).

but the niobium yarns are stronger and 100 times more conductive. Overall, niobium-based supercapacitors can store up to five times as much power in a given volume as carbon nanotube versions.

and could be woven into fabrics, enabling wearable forms; individual niobium nanowires are just 140 nanometers in diameter 140 billionths of a meter across,

the researchers say. he work is very significant in the development of smart fabrics and future wearable technologies, says Geoff Spinks, a professor of engineering at the University of Wollongong, in Australia,

and an outer fabric of porphyrin-phospholipids (Pop) that wraps around the core. Credit: Jonathan Lovell Differences like these mean doctors can get a much clearer picture of

and an outer fabric of porphyrin-phospholipids (Pop) that wraps around the core. Each part has unique characteristics that make it ideal for certain types of imaging.

because the threads we formed have a structure that has never been seen before Badding said.

Because this thread is diamond at heart we expect that it will prove to be extraordinarily stiff extraordinarily strong and extraordinarily useful.

He describes the thread's width as phenomenally small only a few atoms across hundreds of thousands of times smaller than an optical fiber enormously thinner that an average human hair.

That the atoms of the benzene molecules link themselves together at room temperature to make a thread is shocking to chemists and physicists.

There are plenty of examples showing how traditional materials can be detrimental to works of art for instance wall paintings treated with acrylic

and materials for modern and contemporary works of art such as acrylic paintings plastic sculptures and composite works that include metal textiles polymers etc.

and then subsequently transferred onto any kind of receiver substrate such as plastic paper and even fabric.

this allows us to move into the automotive construction aerospace textile and electronics sectors which are demanding

spinning out nanofibers for use in water filters body armor and smart textiles; or propulsion systems for fist-sized nanosatellites.

Engineers of LUT have constructed the world's first electrical motor applying a textile material; carbon nanotube yarn.

The presently most electrically conductive carbon nanotube yarn replaces usual copper wires in the windings. The motor prototype is built by the LUT Electrical engineering group as a start towards lightweight efficient electric drives.

In order to make CNTS easy to manipulate they are spun to form multifiber yarn. If we keep the electrical machine design parameters unchanged and only replace copper with future carbon nanotube wires it is possible to reduce the Joule losses in the windings to half of the present-day machine losses.

The prototype motor uses carbon nanotube yarns spun and converted into an isolated tape by a Japanese-Dutch company Teijin Aramid

which has developed the spinning technology in collaboration with Rice university the USA. The industrial applications of the new material are still in their infancy;

scaling up the production capacity together with improving the yarn performance will facilitate major steps in the future believes Business Development Manager Dr. Marcin Otto from Teijin Aramid agreeing with Professor Pyrhnen.

We expect that in the future the conductivity of carbon nanotube yarns could be even three times the practical conductivity of copper in electrical machines.

Researchers'acid-free approach leads to strong conductive carbon threads More information: Biocompatible Carbon nanotube#Chitosan Cardiac Scaffold Matching the Electrical conductivity of the Heart.

The scale is small, a little smaller than the diameter of spider silk. Scaling this research up in the future may mean that you could replace the gas in your cars and generators with hydrogen greener option,

Super-stretchable yarn is made of graphene More information: Hunt Adrian Ernst Z. Kurmaev and Alex Moewes.

For example it might eventually be embed possible to these printed flexible optoelectronic devices into clothes packaging wall papers posters touch screens or even buildings.

If these could be made flexible they could be integrated in clothes rolled up or printed over any irregular surface substantially increasing the quality of printed and flexible electronics.

The study examined the confined water on the outer surfaces of one dimensional nano-structured materials including spider silk and cactus thorn,

Research results of bio-inspired spider silk and cactus thorn showed the confined water collection on these one dimensional nanostructures was helpful in solving the shortage of freshwater resources.

#Super-stretchable yarn is made of graphene A simple, scalable method of making strong, stretchable graphene oxide fibers that are scrolled easily into yarns

and have strengths approaching that of Kevlar is possible, according to Penn State and Shinshu University, Japan, researchers."

The coatings are particularly suitable for the application on large and solid surfaces, on doorhandles and for textiles.

New nanotech may provide power storage in electric cables clothes Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 PLAYER, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket?

and structurally consistent over their length the fibers can also be woven into a crossing pattern into clothing for wearable devices in smart textiles.

Clothes-wearers! Folks who maybe drank some milk right out of the jug one time and spilled it all over themselves

and drop your cloths off at the oporatorless drycleaning machine built into a 20ft shipping container.

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The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.

The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.

The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.

The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.

The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.

The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.

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#Vest And Scarf Made From Spider Silk This silk scarf and vest have a nice drape

because they're made of super-strong transgenic spider silk. Functional and good-looking! Our favorite.

The clothes were woven from silk produced by silkworms with a spider gene engineered into them.

The resulting hybrid material is made up of less than 1 percent spider proteins yet it's 53 percent tougher than regular silk according to the research team five scientists from Japan's National Institute of Agrobiological

Scientists have known long spider-silk proteins are exceptionally strong. Dragline silk the stuff spiders use to make the spokes of their webs

and to dangle creepily from ceilings is five times stronger than an equal-sized thread of steel would be.

Researchers have thought about using spider silk for everything from surgical thread to bulletproof vests. There's no reason to make a cute scarf from spider silk of course

but the Japanese team members wanted to demonstrate they could harvest their product and feed it into the same machines silk factories use.

Why not get the silk directly from spiders instead of it putting it through a silkworm first?

Spiders don't make a lot of silk at once and they're cannibalistic so it's hard to maintain a spider farm.

Silkworms on the other hand have been domesticated over thousands of years. They produce voluminous silk cocoons and they're easy to raise indoors.

A silkworm that makes spider proteins could be a gentle little biological silk factory spinning out a super-strong product.

In recent years a number of labs have created genetically engineered silkworms that spin part-spider silk.

However this is the first time we've seen anybody produce and harvest enough of the material to weave it into something wearable.

In this research scientists made copies of the genetic code for one dragline protein from Araneus ventricosus spiders The researchers inserted the copies into the DNA of Japanese silkworms.

and they performed strength tests on the raw silk. Eventually they made enough engineered silkworms that they were ready to kill the worms in their cocoons harvest the silk dye the silk threads

and knit the threads into cloth just like silk factories do. The researchers are now planning to try to raise their genetically engineered silkworms at commercial farms the Japan Times reports.

They published their scientific work last week in the journal PLOS One e

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