Material scientists in China have created a new kind of coating that keeps clothes clean without the need for wasteful ...

Laboratory tests show the coating remains highly effective after more than 100 laundry cycles. While these stain-resistant ...

A new self-cleaning fabric coating cuts laundry water use by 82%, eliminates detergent, and repels bacteria and fungi with a single rinse.

The UofT researchers, led by Professor Kevin Golovin, have created a two-layer coating made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) brushes, which are linear, single polymer chains grown from a substrate to ...

The new coating is described in a study recently published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) developed the coating, which is ...

Masks and gowns are crucial to protect health workers from the spread of viruses, but they only do so much. Germs can still latch onto the material that protective equipment is made of, and diseases ...

(Nanowerk News) Fabrics that resist water are essential for everything from rainwear to military tents, but conventional water-repellent coatings have been shown to persist in the environment and ...

Superprotective garb for withstanding both flood and fire is on the horizon now that Chinese chemists have come up with a self-healing, triple-dip coating that renders cotton flame resistant and ...

New York, Feb. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Textile and Fabric Finishing and Fabric Coating Mills Global Market ...

UBC researchers have developed an inexpensive, non-toxic coating for almost any fabric that decreases the infectivity of the virus that causes COVID-19 by up to 90 per cent. And in the future, you ...