Textile comfort and performance properties comprise a diverse range of characteristics that determine the functionality and wearability of fabrics across various applications. These properties include ...

The textiles sector is one of the early users of nanotechnology processes and products. Within the fabric sector, branding of nanotechnology will be crucial to the incorporation of nanotechnology ...

A research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has achieved a revolutionary breakthrough in smart materials, successfully developing soft magnetorheological textiles that can flexibly ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) "Nano Textiles" can be produced by a variety of methods. The key difference among them is whether synthetic nanoparticles are integrated into the fibres or the textile, or are ...

The "nano" prefix denotes that at least one of the dimensions of these materials is in the order of 1-100 nanometer. A nanometer (nm) is a billionth of a meter, which is about 1/80000 of the diameter ...

Medical or healthcare textiles constitute one of the highest growing sectors in the technical textile market due to the increased use of textile materials across healthcare and medical products ranges ...