The way a garment is manufactured plays a critical role in determining the volume of microfibers it will release throughout a lifetime of wash and wear. Fiber composition and yarn spinning systems ...

Yarn spinning dynamics and fibre arrangement form the cornerstone of modern textile engineering, underpinning both the quality of yarn and its performance in downstream manufacturing. An understanding ...

Researchers in US are the first to produce electrically conducting yarns from webs of carbon nanotubes and various powders and nanofibres. The yarns, made by a technique called biscrolling, are very ...

There is a crafty vibe in the air of materials science. Earlier this week we brought news that researchers investigating how graphene forms discovered a patchwork-like structure in the carbon ...

Despite their immense potential, the road to translating the superlative properties of individual carbon nanotubes into high-performance macroscopic fibers and yarns has been fraught with challenges.

Chemists report a new process for making carbon fibers from graphene oxide that promises to be a scalable, organic-solvent-free route to new kinds of strong, lightweight materials (ACS Nano 2014, DOI: ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Materials engineers are keen to exploit the outstanding mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for applications in fibers, composites, fabrics and other larger-scale ...

Finnish textile material innovation company Spinnova has entered into a non-binding Letter of Intent (LoI) with Tearfil Textile Yarns, a Portuguese yarn spinning company, to ensure access to SPINNOVA ...