Explore the silk thread innovation turning clothes into charging stations, harnessing body heat for sustainable, battery-free ...

Imagine a sweater that powers electronics to monitor your health or charge your mobile phone while running. This development ...

The silk thread was coated with a conducting polymer, a plastic material with a unique chemical structure that allows for ...

Imagine a sweater that charges your phone or powers health-monitoring devices while you go about your day. Scientists at ...

The team from Chalmers University of Technology coated ordinary silk threads with a specialized polymer that is both flexible ...

A research team led by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has presented a common silk thread coated with a ...

Phan Thi Thuan's family have been making silk for generations, growing and harvesting the threads from silkworms themselves to create luxury garments. But making lotus silk is different.

GOTHENBURG - Researchers at a Swedish University say they have discovered that coating silk thread with a conductive plastic ...

A number of these filaments, 12 to 20, are gathered together and twisted into a yarn in the same way that cocoon silk threads are spun or thrown together. The artificial silk threads, while still ...

They soak the cocoons for up to seven hours to soften the threads before pulling them. This machine reels the silk. Workers then hang the threads to dry. Next, the threads are machine-woven.