The elemental steel strut and concrete tower exists to test out new material approaches for each of its square-shaped levels, with a specific focus on folded surface structures, innovative ...

Unlike petroleum, trees and bamboo are renewable resources. These fibers are made the same way synthetic fibers are, by being pushed through holes and stretched. Rayon (Viscose), Lyocell (Tencel), and ...

Functional Fabric Fair and Future Fibers Expo (FFE) are leading by example. The respective trade shows strategically ...

Based on when each fiber picked up the sound, this shirt can be used to detect the direction a clap came from. And when hooked up to a power source, the fabric microphones can project sound as a ...

The fabric can be brittle, is prone to shedding fiber, yellows in the sunlight, and doesn’t drape particularly well. For its more industrial purposes, these qualities don’t matter as much.

A new approach to the design of light-emitting fabric could lead to the development of softer and more wearable luminous clothing, according to a project at the University of Windsor in Ontario. The ...