New Knitting Technique Produces Electronic Smart Fabrics at Industrial Scales
New Knitting Technique Produces Electronic Smart Fabrics at Industrial Scales Meet the bike shorts of the future. Image: BluIz60/Shutterstock.com Australian scientists have developed a knitting technique capable of producing electrically-conductive Spandex-carbon nanotube hybrid textiles at industrial scales. As described earlier this month in a paper published in ACS Nano, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.6b04125 the stretchable fabrics “exhibit excellent […]