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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 […]
Researchers test heat-reactiveness of fabric
June 1st, 2023
The different patterns created for the materials testing. Photos: Aalto Research into reactive textiles goes on around the world. At Aalto University in Finland, researchers have developed textiles that change shape when they heat up, thanks to weaving in liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs). The work was done in collaboration with the University of Cambridge in […]