News tagged with bamboo fabric
A fabric with green sheen: Fast-growing bamboo offers more eco-friendly cloth
Anne Kai, of Lacey, Wash., owns a small, hand-dyed fabric business with an environmental slant.
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Components based on nature's example
They are lightweight and yet strong and resilient: straw, bamboo, bones and teeth owe their surprising strength to their cleverly designed internal structures and a judicious combination of materials. The ...
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Spinning the unspinnable: Using biscrolling technology invented at UT Dallas
Nanotechnologists at The University of Texas at Dallas have invented a broadly deployable technology for producing weavable, knittable, sewable, and knottable yarns containing up to 95 weight percent of otherwise unspinnable ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 06, 2011 |
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Scientists create custom 3D structures with 'DNA origami'
BOSTON--By combining the art of origami with nanotechnology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers have folded sheets of DNA into multilayered objects with dimensions thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a ...
May 20, 2009 |
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Japanese architectural trends reflect unique realities, scholar says
(PhysOrg.com) -- When Japan was hit with a major economic downturn in the 1990s, it affected architectural and construction practices in Japan. Those seeking lessons applicable to related industry practices ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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A boost for bamboo-based blouses and blankets
Rising interest in “sustainable” fabrics is fostering a bamboo boom, in which bamboo-based fabrics are hitting the market as a leading eco-friendly textile.
Apr 07, 2008 |
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Truck-safe bamboo bridge opens in China
In China bamboo is used for furniture, artwork, building scaffolding, panels for concrete casting and now, truck bridges.
Dec 12, 2007 |
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