Person cleaning a faucet with a microfiber cloth - Xefstock/Getty Images Made of ultra-fine synthetic fibers, microfiber is a cleaning powerhouse with its soft, gentle texture and durability. The ...

Dr. Lee Dong Yoon's team at KERI's Energy Conversion Research Center has developed a "plane heating element" made of metal ...

Wool, wood, cotton, cocoons, coal, and petroleum are natural resources used to make fabrics. The reason each of these very different things can become fabric is that they all share a common chemistry.

Fabric Type (Woven, Non-Woven), Application (Wind Energy, Transportation, Electrical & Electronics, Construction, Marine, ...

A new type of cloth developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo can heat up when exposed to the sun thanks to innovative nanoparticles embedded in the fabric's fibers. This advance ...

Cotton is the soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the ... Evidence of cotton being grown, spun and woven into cloth can be traced as far back as 3,000 BC in the valleys of the Indus and ...

An environmentally friendly method to turn fabric back into fibre is a breakthrough in tackling the huge problem of textile waste. In Australia alone, more than 500,000 tonnes of clothing waste is ...

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 ...

This light interaction with the fabric generates a distinct pattern akin to a fingerprint, identifying fibre types through near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. Although this method can be mechanised on ...

The effect is the result of friction between the adjacent loops of fiber that make up a knit fabric, physicist Jérôme Crassous and colleagues report in the Dec. 13 Physical Review Letters.