During World War II, nylon stockings disappeared from store shelves as the valuable synthetic material was diverted to make critical wartime supplies such as parachutes, flak jackets and aircraft fuel ...

Your old yoga pants are a recycling nightmare. A startup called Return to Vendor found a new solution—by redesigning the molecules in nylon. Stretch fabrics are notoriously hard to process. When your ...

Microft MX claims to harness the combined strengths of polyester and nylon. Credit: Teijin Frontier. The new Teijin Frontier material is said to combine the texture and functionality of polyester and ...

In 1984 everything was synthetic, from bottle blondes to spandex workoutwear to whatever was in Tab. Fashion, too, was in the middle of a synthetic revolution, following the widespread adoption of ...

Abdullah Mattar, a member of the team, said there was an urgent need to bridge between these two types of activities to enable recycling of the huge quantity of paper wastes. "We realised that there ...