Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Extreme Textiles article and exhibit
Today's NYT has an article and nice online slide show about innovative new textiles, from electrically conductive rope to carbon fiber building materials. The article is pegged on a current exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum called Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance. Pictured here is polymer skin (photo by Cary Wolinsky/Aurora):
Link (Thanks, Mark Riedy!)A process called electrospinning makes fibers out of an electrically charged solution containing dissolved polymers and sticks them onto an electrically charged surface. The fibers fall randomly but form a uniform layer, even on a three-dimensional surface. "It's sort of like spray-on Gore-Tex," said Dr. Heidi Schreuder-Gibson of the Army Natick Soldier Center. "It's very breathable, just like skin."
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