Tag: textiles
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New textile weathers temperature shift
Weather changes, but thanks to a new high-tech textile, someday you may not have to switch out your outfit. Materials scientists and engineers at Stanford University have developed a multilayered textile that traps body heat on one side and passively radiates heat away from the body when flipped inside out. The material kept artificial skin…
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Jeans that charge your phone? The future of wearable batteries
Our clothing could soon store all the power we need to recharge our phones thanks to a new type of fabric that can hold electricity just like a battery, developed by Deakin scientists. The fabric, called MXene (pronounced ‘Maxine’), is flexible, super-strong, and super-conductive. “Imagine having a shirt that can store energy. You could have…
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Design patterns from microscopy
Often, we look at slides under a microscope as a way to observe something that will produce data and support a hypothesis. However, as a person passionate about science and art, I am equally awestruck by the colors, patterns, textures, and sense of order that can be observed on such a small scale. Cerebella Design™ began…