Materials that expand and contract in response to changes in their environment have attracted considerable interest as building blocks for actuators or “artificial muscles” in miniaturized medical ...

The eighteenth-century cotton entrepreneur reminds us that cutting-edge knowledge often resides in brains, not books.

The origin of Ferre recycle cotton yarn within its final apparel products can now be detected and validated thanks to its new partnership with Aware traceability technology. The aim of the new ...

One-dimensional flexible supercapacitor yarns are of considerable interest for future wearable electronics. The bottleneck in this field is how to develop devices of high energy and power density, by ...