Toland has knit and spun yarn for over 20 years, but it wasn’t until she moved to New Hampshire that she had a flock of her own sheep to shear and from which to make homemade yarn. In Canterbury, she ...

Despite their immense potential, the road to translating the superlative properties of individual carbon nanotubes into high-performance macroscopic fibers and yarns has been fraught with challenges.

An efficient process makes it possible to spin kilometer-long yarns of carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are attractive for a multitude of technological and life science applications because ...

AeroLas GmbH (Munich, Germany) has developed a spinning process by which discontinuous filaments of carbon fiber can be combined with a thermoplastic fiber to create a yarn material that has potential ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Materials engineers are keen to exploit the outstanding mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for applications in fibers, composites, fabrics and other larger-scale ...

When you see a nice handmade sweater, you know it took a while to make. The knitting or crocheting is just part of it. (A fun online calculator at www.lovecrafts.com estimates how long anything from a ...