As a way to turn cloth into heating elements for self-warming clothing, engineers at Rutgers University in the US have used high-intensity light pulses to fuse silver nano-wires onto polyester fibres – something called intense pulsed-light scintering. While delivering sufficient energy to bond the silver wires to the cloth fibres, the underlying polymer is not ...

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