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2. Biotextile - Wikipedia

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   These helices can further assemble into quaternary structures, allowing collagen to take on the form of fibrillar proteins. These protein building blocks could biofabricate abrasion-resistant, water-resistant, breathable, lightweight and durable materials with characteristics similar to leather. [8] Natural silk has remarkable strength. The ...

3. Hodden - Wikipedia

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   These are clothes suitable for outdoors use: warm, windproof, and water-resistant. The more commonly quoted formula for hodden grey - made by mixing black and white fleeces together in the proportion of one to twelve when weaving [ 7 ] - gives a smokey grey that was more expensive and becomes fashionable much later with greater availability of ...

4. Aquascutum - Wikipedia

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   Aquascutum was established in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition, when tailor and entrepreneur John Emary opened a high quality menswear shop at 46 Regent Street.In 1853, after succeeding in producing the first waterproof wool, he had his discovery patented and renamed the company 'Aquascutum', Latin for 'watershield'. [3]

5. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances - Wikipedia

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   Fluorine-containing durable water repellent makes a fabric water-resistant. Fluorinated surfactants or fluorosurfactants are a subgroup of PFAS characterized by a hydrophobic fluorinated "tail" and a hydrophilic "head" that behave as surfactants. These are more effective at reducing the surface tension of water than comparable hydrocarbon ...

6. Sustainability brand - Wikipedia

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   Sustainability brands are brands that undertake sustainable practises in the workings of their business and champion them.. They then use brand communication tools to convey these benefits to their end consumer hence enabling then to make conscious decisions while being associated with or buying from that brand.There are several techniques to communicate this.

7. Forest disturbance by invasive insects and diseases in the ...

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   Pathogens can spread through the air, water, or on insect and animal vectors (hosts). Dutch elm disease was spread by elm bark beetles, yet the tree mortality was caused by a pathogen. [4] Chestnut blight is a fungus spread through wind dispersal and rain splatter; the blight traveled up to 50 miles in a year by natural means. [5]