Explore the silk thread innovation turning clothes into charging stations, harnessing body heat for sustainable, battery-free ...

Imagine a sweater that powers electronics to monitor your health or charge your mobile phone while running. This development ...

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Their research is published in Advanced Functional Materials. To make these superhero-like silk threads, the researchers boiled and washed silk moth cocoons in various solutions until all of its silk ...

The team from Chalmers University of Technology coated ordinary silk threads with a specialized polymer that is both flexible ...

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Momme level is also crucial, which is the silk thread’s weight. Ideally, you want to go for anything over 19 momme, to ensure durability, while 22 momme is also lightweight enough to offer a ...

A research group, led by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, presents an ordinary silk thread, coated with a conductive plastic material, that shows promising properties for turning ...

The silk thread that the researchers tested has a coating made of a conducting polymer. It is a plastic material with a chemical structure that makes the material electrically conductive and well ...