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Alberto De Conti, director of the Global Innovation Group at Levi Strauss in Belgium, will unveil current and future projects for incorporating electronic devices into the Levi's clothing range at the
Japan's Fujitsu has developed a new polymer with a high bio-content that uses castor oil extracted from the seeds of the castor bean.
Creating artificial substances that are both stretchy and strong has long been an exclusive engineering goal, and inspired by spider silk - a naturally-occurring strong and stretchy substance - MIT re
Royal Philips Electonics spin-off Polymer Vision is to establish the world's first production facility for organic semiconductor-based rollable displays.
Researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin have used igneous rock from Mount Etna to produce carbon nanotubes and fibres directly by deposition from the gas phase.
Burton Snowboards is expanding its range of clothing featuring Outlast temperature regulation technology.
A team of researchers from Arizona State University and Motorola Labs have developed sensors based on carbon nanotubes.
Polymer nanofibres become much stronger when their diameters are below a certain size according to scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
At the ispo winter 2007 show held in Munich from February 4-7, Reusch introduced the ThermoTec heating system - a technology developed in close cooperation with Interactive Wear AG.
Bayer Technology Services GmbH (BTS) will premier its latest offerings in the fields of nanotechnology and microprocess technology at POWTECH, the European trade show for mechanical process technology
New York-based NaturalNano says the results of manufacturing scale testing of its Pleximer halloysite nanotubes revealed superior dispersion at concentrations in excess of 30% in nylon.
Innovations in Nanotechnologies, Composites and Sports Materials is the focus of a two-day symposium which will be held April 11-12 at the DoubleTree Club Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
US filtration company Clarcor has just taken delivery of a nanofibre manufacturing line it expects to go into production later this year.
North Carolina State textile scientists have devised a nanocoated fabric that kills the flu virus, along with other viruses and bacteria.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has set strong budget and policy goals to encourage Californians to embrace available cleantech technologies, and move forward with aggressive cleantech R&amp
QuarTek Corporation, based in High Point, North Carolina, has created a nanomaterial that will hold in liquids such as urine or blood during use and then become water-soluable and quickly biodegradabl
Body Faders, based in Eastpointe, Michigan, USA, reports strong international orders for its colour-changing clothing that is sold from its store or over the web.
In just three years, Nanotech Northern Europe 2007 has grown to become one of the leading European events in the field.
Ion-mask, the super-hydrophobic treatment from UK-based P2i Ltd, has won the functional Sportswear category in the 2008 ISPO BrandNew Awards in Munich.
IFAI (Industrial Fabrics Association International, has announced its first conference in Germany - Advanced Textiles 08/Outstanding Materials and Applications - which will take place at the Relaxa Ho
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