The growth of the textile industry the world over is due to a large extent to the development of processing machinery for textile fibres. The hand spindles or 'churkha' gave birth to spinning and the ...

Drexel researchers have developed a way to coat cellulose yarn with flakes of a type of conductive, two-dimensional material, called MXene, to imbue it with the conductivity and durability it needs to ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) MXenes – the large family of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides and nitrides – show outstanding physical properties and have found applications ranging from energy ...

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Essex Incorporated (Essex) is one of the nation's leading providers of manufacturing equipment for the textile industry. For more than three decades, the company has produced ...

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 — ...

Researchers have figured out how to add more conductivity into functional fabric devices, by coating yarns with a 2-dimensional carbon-based material called MXene, to make conductive threads. The ...