Using a combination of ordinary nylon thread and conductive ink, MIT scientists have created artificial muscles that can perform many of the motions found in natural muscle tissue. The researchers ...

Bonazzi confesses that had he known at the time just what it would take to switch to trash as a core resource, and at the same time develop the technology to turn it into pure nylon thread ...

Nylon thread is produced in a factory. "Toothbrush bristles, lingerie, swimwear, tents, toys, sutures, fishing nets, artificial turf, airbags, reinforcing cord for ...

The Seaford plant produced nylon in different weights that were used in sewing thread, toothbrush bristles, hair brushes, fishing line and surgical sutures. By May 1940, enough nylon fiber for ...

The team has already experimented with using the spider silk as a suturing thread for stitching up incisions in rats and found that their wounds healed better than when traditional nylon threads ...

A filament of nylon may have a million or more molecules ... or in special uses such as surgical thread, parachutes, or pipes -- nor the powerful effect it had in launching a whole era of synthetics.