Alexis Peña and Lauren Blake, cofounders of Good Fibes, aim to tackle this problem with lab-grown elastics. Operating out of ...
For example, synthesizing the silk protein is just the first step towards making a fabric. Developers need to then spin it into a fiber, test the material properties, turn it into a textile, and then ...
Dr. Ben Allardyce and Ph.D. candidate Mr. Martin Zaki from Deakin's Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) have delivered a ...
Cotton is a versatile crop with valuable fiber, seeds, and stalks. Its uses range from textiles and oil to animal feed and ...
Cotton (plant) Highly absorbent so is comfortable to wear, strong and durable, easy to care for but can shrink and has poor elasticity so creases Most clothing, bed linen, upholstery fabric and in ...
Separately, testing by the Fresenius Institute showed AMSilk's textiles are ... a natural structural protein for performance ...
Textiles are lightweight materials ... The only naturally flame-resistant fibre is wool, along with all other animal protein fibres such as silk, alpaca, mohair, cashmere and others.