The practice of purposely looping thread to create intricate knit garments and blankets has existed for millennia. Though its precise origins have ...

Researchers at Cornell University are developing HelioSkin, a lightweight, flexible solar fabric that can be woven around ...

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This is Part 2 in a five-part multimedia feature examining Cornell's cutting-edge, interdisciplinary contributions to solar ...

But what if photovoltaic panels were instead a hinged, lightweight fabric that was aesthetically ... using geometric methods such as origami and kirigami to improve the mechanical performance ...

College of Textile and Garment, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, China CAS Center for Excellent in Nanoscience, Beijing Key Laboratory of Micro-nano Energy and Sensor, Beijing Institute of ...