A recent paper in Nature has demonstrated that electronic textiles can be made to detect many different types of contact in one. Researchers from China have created a new technique to spin fibres called silk fibroin-based ionic hydrogel (SIH) fibres, which electronically respond in characteristic ways when they are in […]
The trade show TechTextil 2024 opens in Frankfurt on April 23. One of the products winning awards at the conference will be ‘LOVR’, which is described as ‘the world’s first truly circular leather substitute. Unlike most ‘plant-based’ leather substitutes, LOVR contains no petrochemicals. Says TechTextil: leather subsitutes have “two problems… […]