Detergents may begin their journey by cleaning our clothes, but they end up contaminating the environment, flowing into ...

A newly developed spray-on fabric coating could allow clothes to be cleaned using only water, reducing water and detergent ...

A person adds or removes clothes from a front-loading laundry machine. Washing clothes (shown) consumes a lot of water, ...

A team of University of Toronto Engineering researchers, led by Professor Kevin Golovin, have designed a solution to reduce the amount of microplastic fibres that are shed when clothes made of ...

Even if soy sauce, ketchup, or engine oil gets on a white shirt, rinsing with water alone makes it clean. That is because the fabric has a self-cleaning coating that blocks stains. With shorter wash ...

A new durable copper-based coating can be precisely integrated into fabric to create responsive and reusable materials such as protective equipment, environmental sensors, and smart filters. The ...

ARMATEX SQF Coated Fabrics from Mid-Mountain Materials are derived from its ARMATEX QF product line, with improved resistance characteristics due to the application of a silicone coating on one side.