Textiles today are not just comfortable and stylish, but can also be smart. Known as electronic textiles, or e-textiles, these are fabrics into which electronic instrumentation is built. The purpose ...

If it contains 'nano', it doesn't primarily leak 'nano': at least that's true for silver-coated textiles, explains Bernd Nowack of the Technology and Society division at Empa. During each wash cycle a ...

Treating patient textiles with ionic silver after washing can significantly decrease microbial contamination, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Infection Control. As ...