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"In addition, the unique structure of the cotton fiber makes it useful in bioremediation, and accelerated cotton crop improvement also promises to improve water efficiency and reduce pesticide use." ...

The tiny batch of fibers can be quickly tested to gauge ... Says James Rodgers, who heads the Cotton Structure and Quality Research Unit at SRRC, "We can use this miniature processing to ...

In order to make separating the cotton fibers from the seed easier ... organisms that swell up and degrade much of the internal structure. After drying, the now brittle stems are broken, followed ...

A single strand of newly developed fiber has the flexibility of cotton and the electric conductivity of the polymer, polyaniline. The new material has shown good potential for wearable e-textiles.

on changing the molecular structure of cotton fibers so that they would, like synthetics, resist wrinkles. The problem was hydrogen: Hydrogen's bonds are weak and easily broken, which made the ...