When everyday materials are pulled, they stretch or elongate in the direction of the pull and become narrower in ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) While individual carbon nanotubes could find applications in nanoelectronics, in order to exploit their intriguing properties on the macroscale, for instance in thin films and ...

I recently had the pleasure of meeting with Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, an adjunct associate professor at Pratt Institute as well as an author and researcher on smart textiles and wearable technologies.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Northeastern University have developed a new fiber, named FibeRobo, that can reversibly change its shape in response to different ...

Researchers are one step closer to making wearable textile technology a reality. Materials scientists have reported a new design of a flexible wearable supercapacitor patch. It uses MXene to create a ...