Future Fibers

The article Future Fiber talks about how high-tech and technical textile materials that are showing up in all kinds of products. It said that textile engineers designed the fleece fabric to not be heavy but lightweight to trap heat to keep you warm. Also, nowadays, clothing companies now sell shirts and pants that don’t get wrinkles, there making breathable rain gear, and even socks that ward off foot order.

Studying the Tiniest Fibers:
In this section of the article, a lady named Wendy Krause at a University College studied thin molecules called polymers. She said that they are shaped a lot like spaghetti and when you bunch them up in mats that they form textiles. When you use different polymers and sizes of fibers, the mats can solve different problems. Like for example, some can resist heat and chemicals and can be used to make safer firefighter gear or some can resist bacteria.

One thing that caught my eye in this article was that this year a scientist figured out how to include wires in fabric that produced electricity as the fabric moves and that someday people could have clothes that work as a power generator. That was very interesting to read about.