Virginia Tech (VT) researchers have been busy developing efficient e-textiles -- electronic textiles and clothing with embedded wires and sensors -- for six years now. Their computerized clothing can ...

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A joint research team led by Principal Researcher Soongeun Kwon and Professor Young-Jin Kim has developed graphene-based, customized e-textiles, for the first time in the world. They published their ...

Recycling textile waste (successfully) is challenging; even though 95 percent of textiles are fully recyclable, 85 percent find their way to landfill, per New York’s Department of Environmental ...

Whilst the majority of wearable technology products sold today still fit with the components-in-a-box design, 2015 has been a record year for investment in smart clothing and e-textile products. To ...

New technology harnesses electronic signals in a smart fabric to detect, capture, concentrate and filter toxic chemicals. New technology that harnesses electronic signals in a smart fabric could lead ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Electronic textiles, or e-textiles, are fabrics that integrate electronics and other functional materials to add advanced capabilities beyond basic clothing. Prior research has ...

In the Wild West of e-textiles, there are few established materials, manufacturers or standards. Creating a product that looks and wears like a jacket with the guts of a keyboard is an uphill battle, ...

New technology that harnesses electronic signals in a smart fabric could lead to advanced hazardous-material gear that protects against toxic chemicals, according to research from Dartmouth College.

Multimodal * graphene-based electronic textiles (e-textiles) for the realization of customized e-textiles have been developed for the first time in the world. * Multimodal means the process by which ...