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  • noun Plural form of nanotextile.

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  • The beauty of nanotextiles is that the particles are so small that the clothing feels and drapes like your favorite cotton T-shirt.

    Fashion Gets Functional | Impact Lab 2007

  • To create the nanotextiles, Ong turned to Juan Hinestroza, an assistant professor of fiber science at Cornell.

    Fashion Gets Functional | Impact Lab 2007

  • But Ong’s creations are among the first to qualify as genuine nanotextiles, fabrics in which the active particles are evenly distributed and less than 100 nanometers in diameter, or about one thousandth the thickness of cotton fibers.

    Fashion Gets Functional | Impact Lab 2007

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