A recent American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac briefly describes how Australian researchers have used nanotechnology to develop 'self-cleaning' wool and silk fabrics (scroll to article #4 in the ...

NATICK, Mass. (Sept. 17, 2014) -- Quoc Truong, a physical scientist at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, or NSRDEC, is making sure that it all comes out before the wash.

Sending your favorite suit to the dry cleaners could one day become an infrequent practice. Researchers at Clemson University are developing a highly water-repellant coating made of silver ...

Wool skirts and silk ties may avoid those pricey trips to the dry-cleaner in the future and clean themselves, researchers in Australia and China suggest. They report development of a nanoparticle ...

(Washington, DC • June 6, 2005) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's) Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering (CBMSE) have developed a new cost-effective, ...

July 7 -- Wouldn't it be nice if you never had to do laundry? An associate professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth says he is on the path to creating history's first self-cleaning ...

The use of nanoparticles to enhance clothing is not a new development. Starting in the mid-2000s, many garment manufacturers began integrating silver nanoparticles with antimicrobial qualities into ...