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Actuator with finger-like flex

1 March 2013
An elegant and powerful new microscale actuator that can flex like a finger has been developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Berkeley Lab and the University of California, Berkeley
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PFC-free alternative for breathable membranes

1 March 2013
Outdoor clothing can be made waterproof and highly breathable with ultrathin membranes made from Arnitel VT from DSM.
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Fashion designer goes mobile

1 March 2013
Samsung Electronics has teamed up with New York-based designer Alexander Wang to create a textile print inspired by crowd-sourced sketches and images using the Galaxy Note II smartphone.
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Fibre that changes colour when stretched

1 March 2013
The bright iridescent blue colour of a tropical plant's fruit were the inspiration for a new fibre that changes colour when stretched, developed by a collaborative team of researchers at Harvard Unive
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Smart Fabrics 2013

1 March 2013
Adidas, MC10, Pebble Technology, Eeonyx Corporation, IDEO, and Philips Lighting are among leading players making presentations at the ninth Smart Fabrics conference which will be held at the Hyatt at
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Thin film solar cells set new record

1 March 2013
Thin film solar cells on flexible polymer foils with a new record efficiency of 20.4% have been developed at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology.
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LED-embedded yarns in prototype garment

1 March 2013
A prototype garment with electronic micro-devices embedded into the core of its yarns has been produced by researchers Nottingham Trent University's Advanced Textiles Research Group.
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Recon claims the Wearable Technologies title

1 March 2013
Recon Instruments from Canada was the overall winner of the Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup announced at the ISPO sports gear show in Munich, Germany, on February 4th.
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New nonwoven biomedical range

1 March 2013
US BioDesign launched its new nonwoven biomedical component range at the Medical Design and Manufacturing West Trade Show in Anaheim, California (February 12-15).
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Lighting up London Fashion Week

1 March 2013
A highly-stylised shoe by one of the fashion world's brightest new names literally lit up the recent London Fashion Week as a result of collaborative work with De Montfort University in Leicester.
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Nanofibre production at lower consumption

1 March 2013
A new system for spinning nanofibres that should offer significant productivity increases while drastically reducing power consumption is being developed by Luis Velasquez-Garcia and his team at MIT's
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Actuator with finger-like flex

1 March 2013
An elegant and powerful new microscale actuator that can flex like a finger has been developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Surface waves for personal networks

1 March 2013
The phenomenon of 'Zenneck surface waves' is being tipped as an effective new method for developing smart clothing that will allow wearable devices to effectively transmit large amounts of data betwee
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New blends of Kevlar and Nomex in Lion ranges

1 March 2013
DuPont and Lion have collaborated on a new clothing range for firefighters and first responders - the first to feature advanced blends of Kevlar filament, Kevlar staple and Nomex fibre.
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Composing the score for spider's silk

1 March 2013
Research by MIT's Markus Buehler has helped explain that the strength of spider silk arises from its unusual hierarchical arrangement of protein building blocks.
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Body armour at the next level

1 March 2013
In collaboration with European Special Forces, TenCate Advanced Armour has developed a new generation of ultra lightweight portable anti-ballistic shields, designed to provide personnel with the best
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Silk protein for stable vaccine transport

1 March 2013
Vaxess Technologies, a Cambridge-based company founded by students from across Harvard University has received $70,000 to support its plan to commercialise new technology that uses silk to stabilise r
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Grand Award for Teijin

1 March 2013
Japan's Teijin has produced the world's first 300-700 nm ultra-fine polyester nanofibre based on proprietary bicomponent technology.
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China patent protection for Alexium

1 March 2013
The Chinese patent office has granted Alexium's patent, 'Method for Attachment of Silicon-containing Compounds to a Surface and for Synthesis of Hypervalent Silicon-compounds' (Chinese Patent Applicat
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Curtains for pollen with new polyester fabric

1 March 2013
Teijin Frontier, the Teijin Group's fibre-product converting company, has developed a new polyester curtain fabric that traps double the amount of pollen as conventional polyester curtain fabric, help
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