Self-Healing fabric could be end of torn clothes

Posted by | August 12, 2016 08:56 | Filed under: Good News Planet


Clothing tears could be a thing of the past if a new material capable of “healing” itself after being ripped proves to be commercially viable. Researchers at Pennsylvania State University created a fabric-coating technology derived from squid ring teeth that allows conventional textiles to self-repair. “Fashion designers use natural fibers made of proteins like wool or…

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By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.

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