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Wet weather coatings Ever wished that your waterproof jacket could actively remove water from the inside? Tong Lin at Deakin University, Australia, and his colleagues coated a porous polyester fabric on both sides with a mixture of titanium dioxide and organosilanes. |
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Just Dew It: What Scientists Can Learn From Flower Petals Researchers in China have discovered why water droplets roll off a lotus leaf like mercury yet stick to rose petals like peanut butter. |
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Colorful Waterproofing for Anything Materials scientists in China have developed a simple process to add an extremely waterproof coating to a variety of materials. |
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March 5, 2015
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Tough self-cleaning coating sticks it to stains Clothing stains may be a thing of the past as scientists in the UK have developed a tough, self-cleaning coating that can be applied to cotton. |
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Making 'armoured' T-shirts Boron carbide - the third hardest material on earth - has been built into the fabric of cotton T-shirts, dramatically increasing its toughness. |
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November 20, 2013
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A drop of extra bounce US researchers have discovered a simple way to modify a water-repellent surface so that bouncing drops of water spend significantly less time in contact with the surface. |
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Perfect Coating Won't Touch Water Imagine a container that can hold liquid without actually touching it. Just such a container could soon become reality following the development by two chemists of a perfectly hydrophobic surface. |
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Electronic Cotton Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers |
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Rainbow Hued Graphene Oxide Repels Water Scientists in China have used a laser to carve out a pattern of ridges and valleys on layered graphene oxide to mimic two of nature's tricks in one go - iridescence and superhydrophobicity. |
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You and Your Calvins Quality repair for any worn, torn, or tattered denim, using a unique reconstructive technique that weaves new cotton fibers into the existing fabric. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2011
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Green fire retardant swells to suppress flames Jamie Grunlan's team at the University of Texas A&M, US, has used layer by layer deposition to coat fabrics with a thin, environmentally benign, fire retardant layer of polymers. |
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February 5, 2013
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'Invisible gates' trap water droplets Researchers in Japan have created a novel superhydrophobic hybrid surface that can separate water droplets sliding down it based on nothing more than their size. |
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December 7, 2012
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Spray and peel forensic sampling Forensic sampling of surfaces currently relies on a wipe with a cotton gauze but there are concerns about cross contamination and the loss of certain organic compounds. |
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Catching water with imitation beetle bumps Inspired by both desert beetles and marine mussels, scientists in Saudi Arabia have devised a new method for creating micropatterned superhydrophobic surfaces that efficiently harvest fog. |
The Family Room
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Baby Clothes - Hints and Tips Baby clothes are really expensive, and because your child grows so fast in the first couple of years, these clothes are going to have a very short life. To maximize the wear we need to look at how we take care of them, how we can get wear from them, for longer and how we might save money... |
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October 27, 2014
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Self-cleaning surfaces from scrap silicone Scientists in China have made a mechanically stable superhydrophobic material from waste silicone. |
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Garment Maker Touts New Hot Weather Uniform As the United States military eyes the Asia-Pacific region, one manufacturer has designed a new fabric that breathes in hot weather and jungle conditions. |
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The Motley Fool
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Don't Buy In to Cotton's Head Fake Cotton prices are falling, but expect retailers to continue struggling. |
BusinessWeek
November 18, 2010
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Cotton Prices Rise as Chinese Output Falls Short Chinese apparel producers are being squeezed by a shortfall in the cotton supply. The result could be higher prices in U.S. stores. |
The Motley Fool
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When Will Cotton Finally Settle Down? High cotton prices are eating into apparel companies' bottom lines. |
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Street Etiquette: Wax Cotton Jacket Wax cotton is a classic piece of menswear that is rich with history. |
Fast Company
February 1, 2007
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Fashion Forward We've come a long way from the miracle of rayon. How new fabric technology is changing our duds. |
Chemistry World
July 26, 2012
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Remote controlled omniphobic surface Chemists in the US have developed a material that normally resists wetting by both aqueous and organic liquids, but can have this property 'switched off' using a magnet, allowing liquids to soak the surface. |
AskMen.com
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AG Jeans The Protege Tapping into two of fall's most popular trends -- earth tones and tapered pants -- these vintage-inspired pima cotton corduroys from AG Jeans are like your favorite chinos, but done in a much more relaxed skater-cool kind of way. |
AskMen.com
Brandon Dyce |
Breathe Easy Fashion For men prone to excessive sweating, fashion can be a real sauna, but there are good fabrics out there for guys who sweat. |
IndustryWeek
January 20, 2010
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U.S. Textile Manufacturing Lives Just when you thought textile manufacturing in the United States was dead, a new cotton yarn mill has begun production in Louisiana. |
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September 2, 2015
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Shrinking hydrogel reinforces fabric for soft yet strong material A hydrogel -- fabric composite that can support a load almost three times greater than the fabric alone has been made by scientists. |
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Can a Do-It-Yourself Fabric Company Craft a Larger Following? Marketing strategies for Spoonflower, a crowdsourcing site for fabric design. |
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J. Crew Shawl-Collar Cardigan J. Crew was smart enough to make this cardigan one you'll want to wear with everything from a button-down Oxford broadcloth shirt to a T-shirt for a late morning coffee run. |
Chemistry World
January 25, 2012
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Water repellent polymer slows down drug delivery It turns out that superhydrophobic materials are very good at slowly releasing drugs over extended periods of time, from weeks to months. |
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Strung Out To indulge in the joys of textiles while avoiding misfortune, get a Marimekko wall-hanging kit. |
AskMen.com
September 12, 2003
Chris Rovny |
Sleeping In Style: Sleepwear For Men First and foremost, sleepwear should be comfortable and appropriate for the climate you're in. It's all in the fabric -- your sleepwear should offer a subtle texture and the right thickness, and it should also be breathable. |
Chemistry World
October 20, 2011
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New Power for Smart Garments Scientists in the US have taken the first steps towards designing a flexible and lightweight fabric that can act as a power supply for smart garments. |
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August 8, 2007 |
Emphasizing Organic The world's biggest clothing retailer, Hennes & Mauritz, ups its organic cotton usage for its autumn-winter 2007-2008 season. |
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November 4, 2015
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Trampolining droplets raise hopes for ice-shedding surfaces With fellow team members at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Tom Schutzius has worked out what was causing this previously-unknown 'trampolining'. |
AskMen.com
Adam Fox |
Fjallraven Jacket Fjallraven's no-frills design shouldn't throw you. This cotton coat comes waxed to weather the storm. In fact, it's made of the company's mainstay G-1000 fabric -- a washable, breathable material treated with wax to hold up against the elements. |
Chemistry World
December 11, 2012
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Seeing the helix of DNA Italian scientists have developed a technique to improve the contrast of electron microscopy images of DNA fibers. |
AskMen.com
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Clothing For Hot Climates The following tips will help you stay stylishly cool when the mercury shoots up. |
