Tuesday, November 4, 2008

future fibers

As of today there are slot of scientist coming up with a lot of different thing we don’t know about! Such as textile fibers, I honestly didn’t know anything about that… most of these people (scientist) took some of these classes’ textile engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry, or material science.
They build better textiles on different types of materials and they are the people that created the space fabrics for the astronauts. Before they made the suit for these astronauts they tested it on a satellite and put it on mars. The suit has to be movable and no air can go through.
Wendy Krause that’s works at NC state university college of textiles, studies and works with thin molecules called polymers. She became an expert and studied chemistry. She says these molecules are even smaller then a piece of hair and they look like spaghetti when they are bunched together and you can not see them even on a typical microscope. She uses these polymers for fiber so the mats can solve different problems like resist heat and chemicals, and to be made as a firefighter gear. Some resist bacteria or grow tissues for skin grafts. Some doctors could patch damaged organs or blood vessels.

1 Comments:

Blogger brendan said...

wow i think that it would be pretty expensive and good article and choice of words they flowed all good

November 21, 2008 at 8:57 AM  

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