(Nanowerk News) Fabrics that resist water are essential for everything from rainwear to military tents, but conventional water-repellent coatings have been shown to persist in the environment and ...

A person adds or removes clothes from a front-loading laundry machine. Washing clothes (shown) consumes a lot of water, energy, and detergent. A new textile coating may reduce this consumption. Credit ...

In the scorching heat of summer, anyone who spends time outside could benefit from a cooling fabric. While there are some textiles that reflect the sun's rays or wick heat away, current options ...

New York, Feb. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Textile and Fabric Finishing and Fabric Coating Mills Global Market ...

UBC researchers have developed an inexpensive, non-toxic coating for almost any fabric that decreases the infectivity of the virus that causes COVID-19 by up to 90 per cent. And in the future, you ...

Even if soy sauce, ketchup, or engine oil gets on a white shirt, rinsing with water alone makes it clean. That is because the fabric has a self-cleaning coating that blocks stains. With shorter wash ...

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 ...

A new process could provide a nontoxic alternative to conventional waterproof coatings for fabrics. Fabrics that resist water are essential for everything from rainwear to military tents, but ...

DENVER, Aug. 21, 2024 — In the scorching heat of summer, anyone who spends time outside — athletes, landscapers, kids at the park or beachgoers — could benefit from a cooling fabric. While there are ...

Washington, Jun 30 (PTI) MIT scientists have developed a novel coating that can make natural fabrics such as cotton and silk water repellant. Fabrics that resist water are essential for everything ...