Xiaoting Jia is in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the School of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, ...

An environmental assessment of textile fibre pollution has found natural textile fibres persist in lake sediments, and could ...

The 'Materials Market' report found that global fibre production has more than doubled and is expected to grow to 160 million tonnes in 2030 given business continues as usual. Polyester, described as ...

The fabrication and characterization of silica-glass optical fibres 1,2 have been developed into a precise art by the telecommunications industry 3,4,5,6. An unintended side effect of this success has ...

New research has shown that bio-based fibers caused higher mortality, and reduced growth and reproductivity, among earthworms -- a species critical to the health of soils globally -- than conventional ...

Medical sensors could get a boost from a new kind of optical fibre with a core of silicon rather than glass Glass optical fibre is replacing copper wire in data communications because it offers a way ...

Close-up camera shots of face masks and COVID-19 test swabs do not show living microscopic worms, but synthetic fibres moving due to static electricity or moisture. The clip shows someone pulling ...

Every time you call someone or visit a website, light travels through strands of optical fibre to quickly send data from one place to another. These fibres are an amazing invention that connects ...

Most of the microfibres polluting our oceans – which have long been assumed to be plastic – are actually natural fibres like cotton and wool. But we don’t yet know whether these fibres pose the same ...

This is the first of eight posts on evolutionary research to celebrate Darwin’s bicentennial. If you were a designer tasked with creating a machine for collecting and processing light, the last thing ...

Kelheim Fibres has a plant based in Bavaria, Germany. Credit: Shutterstock. Kelheim Fibres filed for bankruptcy at Germany’s Regensburg District Court on 22 October, according to local news ...