Fabrics and garments you should not wash with fabric softeners include: Fortunately, the misuse of fabric softener does not cause permanent damage. “If you accidentally use fabric softener on a ...

Drexel researchers have developed a way to coat cellulose yarn with flakes of a type of conductive, two-dimensional material, called MXene, to imbue it with the conductivity and durability it needs to ...

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 ...

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto have designed a solution to reduce the amount of microplastic fibres shed when washing synthetic fabrics. In a world swamped by fast fashion – an ...