(Nanowerk Spotlight) The future of your shirts, socks and gloves will be electronic. In years to come, wearable electronics will look nothing like even your smallest iPod or mobile phone today. Not ...

Photocatalytic coatings impart textiles with self-cleaning, antimicrobial and pollutant-degrading functions by harnessing light to drive oxidation and reduction reactions at the fibre surface. Central ...

Producing functional fabrics that perform all the functions we want, while retaining the characteristics of fabric we’re accustomed to is no easy task. Two groups of researchers at Drexel University — ...

Conductive textiles may represent the next frontier for wearables. China and Korea-based researchers with Advanced Materials Technologies are testing the creation of conductive fabrics by dip-coating ...