Many socks, towels and other textiles are treated with silver nanoparticles to kill germs and odors. When the silver washes out, it can pollute waterways. Two chemists propose a way to collect it from wastewater.
Articles on Textiles
Displaying 61 - 74 of 74 articles
Is an archaic sewing skill a key to connected, sensing, communicating fabrics of the future?
Summer may have come to an official end, but the plastics from your bathers might still be at the beach!
Waste crime has the potential for easy, high profits and as such is set to join ranks with drugs and human trafficking.
When Malcolm Turnbull released his innovation agenda, the arts were missing. But Australia’s fashion industry is a true innovator, comparable to French and Italian fashion houses. It’s time to recognise this at home.
Machines by Rahul Jain reveals how some industries turn bodies into commodities.
In work poverty is a sign the icy tide of capitalism is now lapping at our ankles in the global north.
While other industries stride ahead with 3D printing, clothing still has a few hurdles to overcome.
Flexible, easy to make, inexpensive, stretchable and simple to coat with nanomaterials, threads are also very commonly used by doctors already.
Welcome to the world of cloths and materials that change depending on your mood.
Togolese consumers are increasingly choosing Chinese replicas over ‘authentic’ Dutch wax prints. Their choice raises fundamental questions about the notion of intellectual property.
A new project is incorporating technology into textiles to help people with late-stage dementia.
A peculiar thing happened in Russia in the early 1920s. Abstract art, often considered the pinnacle of elitism and high art, was instead employed by artists as a testing ground for ideas that promised…
Oxford University researchers have harnessed the natural defence mechanism of silkworms, which causes paralysis, in what…
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor, Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University
-
Senior Lecturer and Program Manager, Bachelor of Fashion (Enterprise) program, RMIT University
-
Associate Professor and Program Manager, Master of Fashion (Entrepreneurship), RMIT University
-
Senior Lecturer in Fashion & Textiles, RMIT University
-
PhD Researcher, Art Market, Nottingham Trent University
-
Lecturer in Textile and Fashion Technology, University of Manchester
-
Director, Swinburne-CSIRO National Testlab for Composite Additive Manufacturing, Swinburne University of Technology
-
Deputy Co-ordinator, Journalism Program, Swinburne University of Technology
-
Doctoral Student, UMass Dartmouth
-
Professor of Art and Associate Dean, Research and Innovation, School of Art, RMIT University
-
Associate Professor of Graphic Design, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
-
Reader in Global Development and Political Economy, SOAS, University of London
-
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
-
Professor of International Relations and International Development, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex
-
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University