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Leather company sponsors 2023 Florida Python Challenge
August 1st, 2023
INVERSA Leathers offers a variety of handbag and wallets, including the Piper & Skye blue purse made from python leather. INVERSA Leathers sponsored the $10,000 grand prize award for Florida’s 2023 Python Challenge, an annual 10-day event that tasks participants with humanely removing as many Burmese pythons from the Everglades as possible. Taking place August […]
Cellulose film could lower buildings’ energy use
August 1st, 2023
Researchers hope the cooling cellulose film can one day be applied to buildings and cars, to require less energy to keep them comfortable. Photo: Qingchen Shen Keeping buildings cool typically means releasing greenhouse gases. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England recently unveiled a bio-based cellulose film that gets cooler when exposed to sunlight […]
Detecting exhaustion with smart yarn, no chips required
August 1st, 2023
The antenna is sewn directly onto the material in loops. Photo: Valeria Galli/ETH Zurich Pushing fatigued muscles past the exhaustion point can cause injury. Prevention—through the detection of exhaustion—is the goal of a new textile sensor that ETH Zurich researchers are working on in the Biomedical and Mobile Health Technology Lab. The inner sensor fiber […]
LEDs to replace fluorescent and incandescent lighting
August 1st, 2023
An AATCC technician evaluates crease specimens using the organization’s current viewing conditions. Photo: AATCC Because of the U.S. phaseout of incandescent and fluorescent bulbs begun in 2007, organizations are in search of equivalent lighting replacements to be used for product testing methods, such as appearance, crease retention and stain-release tests. In collaboration with Cotton Inc., […]
Biomaterial created from bacterial fermentation
August 1st, 2023
Biotechnology company Modern Synthesis has developed a biomaterial from bacterial fermentation that can be used to create a low-carbon alternative to traditional clothing fabrics. The biomaterial was developed in the company’s London, England, lab by growing nanocellulose (a lightweight material produced by bacteria) on a framework of thread. Nanocellulose fibers, which are very small, are […]
Microscale knots double tensile strength of new material
August 1st, 2023
Knots are known for boosting the tensile strength of materials, including the tiniest twists of DNA. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena reports that engineers there have developed a new material consisting of microscale knots and shown that it’s far tougher than a version of the material without knots. The material is made of […]
Research produces a supercharged textile finish
August 1st, 2023
Scientists have developed a simple metallic textile finish for clothing or wearable textiles that can repair itself, repel bacteria from the wearer and even monitor a person’s electrocardiogram (ECG) heart signals. Researchers from Flinders University in South Australia, North Carolina State University and South Korea say the conductive circuits created by liquid metal (LM) particles could […]
Biomimetic soft “seed robot” navigates through soil
August 1st, 2023
Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa, Italy, have created what they say is the first biomimetic, biodegradable soft robot that changes shape in response to humidity and can navigate through soil. The researchers say the device has great potential as a new means of analyzing soil and thereby monitoring the environment. […]
Mattress textiles could be used to make EV batteries
August 1st, 2023
In a three-year study at the National Institute for Materials Advancement at Pittsburg State University (PSU) in Kansas, researchers led by Ram Gupta, Ph.D., developed a process that transforms mattress textiles into conductive carbon materials used to make the anodes and cathodes in lithium-sulfur rechargeable batteries. These next-generation electric vehicle (EV) lithium-sulfur batteries have two […]
10 business lessons from Southern Stitch of Gulfport, Miss.
August 1st, 2023
There’s a saying that chance favors the prepared. Sometimes that preparation can take some surprising forms. Just ask Steven Wayne, founder and operator at Southern Stitch Canvas & Upholstery LLC in Gulfport, Miss. When he was growing up, Wayne was much more interested in car audio systems than upholstery. When he landed a sales job […]