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  2. Self-healing material - Wikipedia

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    Organic threads (such as polylactide filament for example) are stitched through laminate layers of fiber reinforced polymer, which are then boiled and vacuumed out of the material after curing of the polymer, leaving behind empty channels than can be filled with healing agents.

  3. Organic cotton - Wikipedia

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    Organic cotton is generally defined as cotton that is grown organically in subtropical countries such as India, Turkey, China, and parts of the USA from non-genetically modified plants, and without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals such as fertilizers or pesticides [1] aside from the ones allowed by the certified organic labeling.

  4. Rayon - Wikipedia

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    The thread made from the regenerated cellulose is washed to remove residual acid. The sulfur is then removed by the addition of sodium sulfide solution, and impurities are oxidized by bleaching with sodium hypochlorite solution or hydrogen peroxide solution. [17] Production begins with processed cellulose obtained from wood pulp and plant fibers.

  5. Suture materials comparison chart - Wikipedia

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    The natural plain thread is precision ground in order to achieve a monofilament character and treated with a glycerol containing solution. Plain is absorbed by enzymatic degradation. Adsorbable biological suture material. Chromic is an adsorbable suture made by twisting together strands of purified collagen taken from bovine intestines.

  6. Marci Zaroff - Wikipedia

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    Producer of “THREAD | Driving Fashion Forward,” documentary; Author of "ECOrenaissance: Co-Creating A Stylish, Sexy and Sustainable World", published in 2018 by Simon & Schuster. [9] Zaroff was a key figure [vague] in the development of the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) [10] and first Fair Trade

  7. Yarn - Wikipedia

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    Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. Modern manufactured sewing threads may be finished with wax or other lubricants to withstand the stresses involved in sewing. [2] Embroidery threads are yarns specifically designed for needlework. Yarn can be made of a number of natural or synthetic materials, and comes in a ...

  8. Binder (material) - Wikipedia

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    Binders are loosely classified as organic (bitums, animal and plant glues, polymers) and inorganic (lime, cement, gypsum, liquid glass, etc.).These can be either metallic or ceramic as well as polymeric depending on the nature of the main material.

  9. Omar M. Yaghi - Wikipedia

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    Omar M. Yaghi (Arabic: عمر مونّس ياغي; born February 9, 1965) is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, an affiliate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences [1] as well as the German ...