With the growing push to improve circularity in the fashion and textile industries, the ability to scale textile recycling operations to create new fibers on a larger scale has become a more immediate ...

CSIRO wet-spinning line in Waurn Ponds, Australia. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), an Australian research and development center, reports that it, in ...

Radici InNova's patented process uses selective dissolution technology to treat mixed textile waste and recover both its ...

China has launched the world’s first 1,000-ton-scale ionic liquid cellulose fiber plant, marking a revolutionary achievement that could potentially transform the global textile industry and set new ...

The new process, called gel electrospinning, is described in a paper by MIT professor of chemical engineering Gregory Rutledge and postdoc Jay Park. The paper appears online and will be published in ...

Despite their immense potential, the road to translating the superlative properties of individual carbon nanotubes into high-performance macroscopic fibers and yarns has been fraught with challenges.

Yarn spinning dynamics and fibre arrangement form the cornerstone of modern textile engineering, underpinning both the quality of yarn and its performance in downstream manufacturing. An understanding ...

Spider silk is prized for its strength. But spiders don’t make enough of the tough fibers to harvest for industrial uses. So researchers and biotech firms have turned to bioengineering silk with ...

Using plants and trees to make products such as paper or ethanol leaves behind a residue called lignin. That leftover lignin isn't good for much and often gets burned or tossed into landfills. Now, ...

Carbon fibers consist of thin filaments (5–10 micrometers in diameter) made of long chains of carbon atoms arranged in a polycrystalline structure. These fibers contain 92–100 wt% anisotropic carbon ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brooke Roberts-Islam is a London-based writer covering sustainability. Synthetic materials, including polyester and polyamide ...