News tagged with protective garments

New Textiles Lab Aims to Advance Functionality of Protective Garments

Jul 21, 2008 | 2 / 5 (2) | 0

A new facility at North Carolina State University will help provide increased protection to first responders by testing their turnout gear against potentially harmful chemical and biological threats.

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Researchers to Develop Next Generation Chemical and Biological Agent Protective Clothing

Other Sciences /

Sep 19, 2005 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

An international team announced today that they have come together to develop critically needed protective garments for first responders to natural disasters and bio-terror attacks. The garments will provide military and ...

Does 'sun-protective' clothing work?

Medicine & Health / Other

Apr 20, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

Dear EarthTalk: Is there really such a thing as "sun-protective clothing"? If so, does it mean I can dispense with oily sunscreens once and for all? (John Sugarman, San Diego, Calif.)

Garments treated with metallic nanoparticles prevent colds and flu

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

May 03, 2007 | 4.2 / 5 (38) | 0

Fashion designers and fiber scientists at Cornell have taken "functional clothing" to a whole new level. They have designed a garment that can prevent colds and flu and never needs washing, and another that ...

High-tech textiles pave the way for glowing garments

Technology / Engineering

Oct 26, 2007 | 4.6 / 5 (16) | 0

Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed high-tech battery-powered textile yarns that can be used to make clothing glow in the dark.

Oldest-known fibers to be used by humans discovered

Archaeologists discover oldest-known fiber materials used by early humans

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 10, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists and paleobiologists has discovered flax fibers that are more than 34,000 years old, making them the oldest fibers known to have been used by humans. The fibers, discovered ...

Nanotech protection: Current safety equipment may not be adequate for nanoprotection

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Oct 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Nanotechnology, Canadian engineers suggest that research is needed into the risks associated with the growing field of nanotechnology manufacture so that approp ...

Smart clothes can improve occupational safety

Other Sciences /

Mar 24, 2005 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

”Smart clothes” are clothes that employ new technologies: technological developments have made it possible to integrate electronic components into conventional garments. In demanding conditions, such as working in heavy industries, ...

NIST Bullet Tests Make Frangibles More Tangible

Technology / Engineering

Jun 08, 2006 | not rated yet | 0

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are measuring precisely the disintegration of “frangible” bullets when they strike a surface to better understand how the ammunition might affect ...

Preventing allergies

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Oct 06, 2009 | 2 / 5 (1) | 0

Vaccination can lower children's risk of allergy. Cathleen Muche-Borowski and her coauthors present a clinical practice guideline for allergy prevention in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch ...