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Chemistry World March 23, 2015 Sonja Hampel |
Flexible polymer threads set to light up clothing Fashions on the catwalk could soon become a whole lot funkier with the development of new light-emitting threads that can be knitted or woven into textiles.  |
Chemistry World November 30, 2011 Mindy Dulai |
How to make a crab shell see-through Researchers in Japan have made a crab shell transparent. Then, using knowledge gained from this activity, they created a transparent nanocomposite sheet, incorporating powdered chitin from crab shells.  |
Chemistry World January 5, 2011 Jon Cartright |
Silk woven into transistors Researchers in Sweden and Spain have created transistors woven from modified silk fibres. The breakthrough bodes well for a new generation of electronic circuits that can be incorporated into fabrics or inserted into biological environments.  |
Chemistry World July 23, 2015 David Bradley |
Super-elastic wire stretches without losing power A conducting wire that can be stretched to 14 times its original length has been developed by scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas, US.  |
Chemistry World January 11, 2013 Laura Howes |
Nanotube fiber production in a spin No, that light bulb isn't floating in thin air, it's suspended by two 24 m thick fibers spun from carbon nanotubes. An international collaboration led by Matteo Pasquali, at Rice University in the US, has developed a method of manufacturing high-performance CNT fibers using wet spinning.  |
Chemistry World May 7, 2013 Jessica Cocker |
Origami electronics We normally think of electronic components as being inflexible but researchers in Japan are challenging this concept by reinventing paper. And they've used their paper electronics to create origami-style lights.  |
Chemistry World July 11, 2010 Mike Brown |
Make some noise for smart fibres Fibres made of multiple materials could function as communication transceivers, emitting an electrical response or sound when the fibres are put under stress or subject to acoustic waves of a range of frequencies, say researchers in the US.  |
Chemistry World July 4, 2014 Andy Extance |
Molecular sieve membranes look to greener separations US researchers have made molecular sieving fibers that open up new possibilities for large scale chemical separations that use much less energy than conventional distillation methods.  |