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FIBERS AND POLYMERS
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 8-14Publisher
KOREAN FIBER SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1007/BF02899323
Keywords
biomimetics; genetic engineering; natural fibres; touch and close fastener; structurally colored fibres; lotus effect
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This paper considers the potential impact of biological approaches such as bio-copying (biomimetics) and biomanipulating (e.g. genetic engineering) on future developments in the field of textiles and, in particular, fibres. If analytical tools for studying biological systems combined with those of materials science are further developed, and higher efficiency and reproducibility of genetic engineering technology can be achieved, the potential for the copying and manipulation of nature for textile innovations will be immense. The present state for both fields is described with examples such as touch and close fastener, structurally coloured fibres, the Lotus effect (for bio-copying), as well as herbicide tolerant cotton, insecticide resistant cotton (Bt cotton), cotton polyester bicomponent fibres, genetically engineered silkworm and silk protein, and spider fibres (for genetic engineering).
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