SMART TEXTILES INCREASINGLY EMERGE ON THE COMMERCIAL MARKET – BUT NOT WITHOUT CERTAIN RISKS
May 1st, 2012
BY MARK ROWE
RESEARCH laboratories, scientists and engineers have, for years, been promising the emergence of innovative, 'smart' capabilities for fabrics and textiles, based on advances in the field of nanotechnology. However, as these designs slowly become a reality in the commercial sense, the potential hazards and risk assessments surrounding them are also gaining a sharper focus.
The potential risks around nanotechnology largely have to do with the changing properties of substances when their particles are reduced to the nano-scale when applied as coatings ...
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