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Wool-Like Material Could be Used in Smart Textiles, Medical Devices

As anyone who has ever straightened their hair knows, water is the enemy. Hair painstakingly straightened by heat will bounce back into curls the minute it touches water. Why? Because hair has shape memory. Its material properties allow it to change shape in response...

Skin Care and Makeup Get the High-Tech Treatment

Most of the attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show, in January, were on the hunt for self-driving cars and improved smartphone cameras, but I arrived at the Las Vegas expo looking for high-tech innovations in beauty. . I walked past the AI chemistry teachers and...

Stratasys PolyJet 3D printing technology used to produce modern fashion items

Stratasys has collaborated with fashion designers Julia Koerner and Ganit Goldstein to produce dresses and kimonos with 3D printed parts. . The works of Koerner and Goldstein form part of Re-FREAM, a collaborative research project funded by the European Union, and...

Harvard develops keratin-based 3D printed textile that changes form

A research team from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has drawn inspiration from hair to develop a 3D printable textile that changes its form based on moisture exposure using a shape memory concept. . As even the most...