Research Into Antimicrobial Treatments Is Advancing If the pandemic has made anything clear with regards to materials, it is that antibacterial and antiviral treatments will continue to be relevant …
Color + Materiality in Design – A collaboration with Peclers Paris
As a designer, you know that color and materiality can have a big impact on the look and feel of a project. They can both be used to create visual interest, evoke emotion, and form a connection …
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Ask an Expert – Sustainability and ESG
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review from Andrew Winston has talked about a tumultuous 2022 for ESG and sustainability with a lot of similar concerns about ’23. …
Top 5 Materials – February 2023
Each month, our research team juries in new materials into our material database. Here are five of our favorite and selections from this month: DURABIO™ Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical …
How It’s Made: Bio-based Leathers, Leathers, Leathers
The two most common questions we get when designers visit the library are, “What kind of bio-leathers do you have?” and, “Do you have any mushroom stuff?” Over the last decade, not only has interest …
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Top 5 Materials: December 2022
Chemical Recycled Polyurethane Foam A recycling process that converts polyurethane (PU) foam waste into polyol and reformulates it to make new open-cell PU foams with the same mechanical …
Sustainability in Fashion and Consumer Products
Dr. Andrew Dent, Material ConneXion’s EVP of research, shares his thoughts and outlook in sustainability in fashion and consumer products. Learn crucial takeaways such as: Sustainability …
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Download the November Trend Report
In a world led by machines, virtual connections and obsessed with performance, never before has the reconnection to human values been so crucial. If the advent of the collaborative economy and social …
Patagonia’s Big News
In this month’s ask an expert, I wanted to talk about a recent article from the last month that we found exciting. I don’t think I could find a more widely circulated article on my LinkedIn as the …
Heat Transfer Printing
Heat transfer Printing or Thermal Transfer Printing is a printing method in which an ink is applied to a material by melting a transparent wax coating called the ribbon, which is adhered to the ink, …
The role of blockchain in today’s manufacturing
Blockchain has gotten a lot of attention over the last few years as people start to understand its potential. Perhaps one of the earlier adopters of blockchain the Queen of Raw started utilizing it to …
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Colorfastness
Colorfastness refers to a textile's ability to resist the fading or running of color. This property is related to the binding force between the fiber and the dye when color transfers from one material …
