An efficient process makes it possible to spin kilometer-long yarns of carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are attractive for a multitude of technological and life science applications because ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Materials engineers are keen to exploit the outstanding mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for applications in fibers, composites, fabrics and other larger-scale ...

(Nanowerk News) While the pattern for making a wearable fabric battery has already been laid out, it’s now time to select the threads that will turn a textile into an energy storage device. That ...

The group members grow their own indigo plants and cotton trees, spin cotton yarn, and dye each thread with natural indigo dye before weaving them to cloth. It takes time, effort and a long process to ...

Cradle to Cradle and 100 percent recycling are also the aim in the textile industry. Sustainability was the central issue at the ITMA 2023 textile machinery trade show. However, it is demanding to ...

Belfast Mini-Mills Ltd., a textile manufacturer in Belfast, P.E.I., is putting a different spin on yarn. While yarn is most commonly made from wool, the owners at Mini-Mills have been spinning yarn ...