Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5625 Renmin Street, Changchun 130022, PR China School of Applied Chemistry and ...

Fear of cotton balls is also known as sidonglobophobia. Another term for the condition is bambakophobia, from the Greek bambaki, which means "cotton," and phobos, which means deep dread or fear. In ...

Urban growth has paved over many cotton fields, pushing them out of Maricopa County to other parts of Arizona. In Arizona, cotton yields are five times higher than a century ago as farmers learn ...

Arguably, the most important pieces of clothing you’re going to put on before any outdoor adventure are the very first ones: the base layers. Superman aside, most of us start the dressing ...

The most common mix of materials you’ll find in old clothing is 70 percent polyester, 30 percent cotton. “But when you go into the details, it’s actually 60 percent PET, 5 percent dyes ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Cotton is struggling to compete against synthetic fibers, with polyester now the most widely used fiber in the world. The synthetic material accounts for more than half of the ...

The main material used in the M-Boulder 125 Boxer Briefs is 18-micron 125gsm Nuyarn merino wool, constructed a superfine weave for maximum softness. The main weakness of merino is its tendency to ...