(Nanowerk Spotlight) Since the early 1990s, the quest to enhance virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences has driven researchers to innovate in the field of haptic interfaces. These ...

When everyday materials are pulled, they stretch or elongate in the direction of the pull and become narrower in cross-section. We can also observe this property in two-dimensional textiles. Auxetic ...

The defining property of an auxetic material is, then, that it possesses one or more negative Poisson’s ratios (as opposed to the positive Poisson’s ratio displayed by ‘normal’ materials). Do you have ...

ETH Zurich has created a yarn whose capacitance varies significantly with the movement of the textile it is woven into. The researchers “integrated it into a pair of athletic leggings”, according to ...

Or sails which power a yacht with electricity as well as catching the wind. That's all part of the 'new north' world of specialist textiles at Bolton University. Next time you meet someone who says ...