Executive vice president and president Allen Jacoby on balancing performance with sustainability, the resurgence of domestic ...

When doctoral student Mostafa Jabbari began his research project, the aim was to improve the properties of the material used for textile bioreactors. But he changed tracks and developed a whole new ...

Cotton Fiber: The Essential Textile Raw Material? In recent years, organic textile raw materials have become increasingly popular as a result of increasing consumer knowledge of healthy and safe ...

New research on the two-dimensional (2D) material graphene has allowed researchers to create smart adaptive clothing which can lower the body temperature of the wearer in hot climates. New research on ...

Cellulose-based textile material can make the clothing sector more sustainable. Currently, cellulose-based textiles are mainly made from wood, but a study headed by researchers from Chalmers ...

Karl Mayer's new Textile Innovation Center combines textile development, machine testing and customer collaboration under one ...

Today, one of the largest international problems is textile waste. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that each year over 15 million tons of textile waste ends up in ...

Let’s start with the basics. What are e-textiles? The term “e-textiles” can refer to either electronic textiles or electrically integrated textiles, but generally they’re a combination of electronics ...

Materials and textile chemists enjoy modifying and improving basic polymers to solve problems. Chemists play a predominant role in materials science to design and synthesize materials with interesting ...