Stretchable polymeric fibers have significant impact, although their production requires rigorous environmental methods and resource consumption. The process is challenging for elastic polymers with ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully produced full-length spider silk fibers using genetically modified silkworms. With high strength and toughness, this silk has the potential to provide ...

New research on how animals spin silk could open the door for more sustainable synthetic fiber production. The University of Sheffield’s Department of Material Science and Engineering discovered that ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Electrospinning, a versatile method for fabricating nano- and microfibers, has the capability to produce fibers with diameters ranging from nanometers to micrometers out of ...

The way a garment is manufactured plays a critical role in determining the volume of microfibers it will release throughout a lifetime of wash and wear. “The yarn spinning system was also found to ...