Smart shirt: Rice University graduate student Lauren Taylor shows a shirt containing carbon nanotube thread that provides constant monitoring of the wearer’s heart. (Courtesy: Jeff Fitlow/Rice ...

Most of us expect materials to behave in a familiar way. When you pull on fabric, it stretches longer and becomes thinner.

A research team from the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has ...

Let’s start with the basics. What are e-textiles? The term “e-textiles” can refer to either electronic textiles or electrically integrated textiles, but generally they’re a combination of electronics ...