Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Future Fibers



Future Fibers




This article is about fiber, the texture of the fabrics makes weatherproof clothing, bed sheets, and upholstery. To this day clothes are getting more high tech. As for example the companies make clothes such as light weight fleece jackets.

Studying the Tiniest Fibers
Studying the tiniest fiber will lead you to study the chemicals that make up the fiber. Wendy Krause is a professor at North Carolina State University’s College of Textiles. She has been working on studying on a thin molecule that are called polymers. ”They’re shaped a lot like spaghetti” Wendy explains. The tiniest fiber that is out there that Wendy discovered are called nanofibers. This fiber is ten times smaller than a human hair.

Building Better Textiles
Chunk Haryslak is a textile at Polartec in Lawrence. He helps his workers repair sewage pipes without digging them out. “You have a hole, and you don’t want to replace the whole pipe”, he says “you can put something in there that can create a tube and then harden.” He also works on the fabric that goes on your clothes.

Space-Age Fabrics
Thad Fredrickson at ILC Dover in Frederica, Del works in an important job to as a Polymer. The workers on a group of chemists, chemical engineers and textiles engineers which are product for the NASA and the U.S department of defense.

High-Tech Textiles= Advanced Materials
The high-tech textile requires many skills in engineering and able to know the art of chemistry. These people that in the field often have to study several different subjects.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like your summary. I cant wait for these Future Fibers.

Lana said...

Goood Article.

brent #20 said...

i like your summary how the way you put it