Innovative techniques in clothing manufacture offer garments that actively keep you safe and comfortable: jackets that grow warmer when the temperature drops, sweat socks that resist bacteria and odors, and T-shirts that ward off ultraviolet rays and might one day kill mosquitoes on contact. Such "super" clothing could soon become widespread, French technologists believe.
Many of these new clothes make use of microcapsules: tiny, spherical membranes bound to the clothing fibers and containing beneficial substances. The Damart company makes a "thermo-regulating" jacket coated with microcapsules on the inside. The capsules contain a substance that stores heat energy by melting at normal temperatures, and then releases that energy by crystallizing as the temperature falls.
Many scented and odor-resistant clothes contain microcapsules that release a perfume or odor-neutralizing chemical when the fabric is rubbed. The Neyret company offers a line of scented lingerie that employs this technology. Another firm, Francital, will offer a line of deodorizing underwear in 2002. (A prototype of such underwear was worn by two explorers for 45 straight days during an expedition to the North Pole.)
Another new technique incorporates a substance with desired properties into synthetic fabric as it is being made. One antibacterial fiber, Rhovyl'AS, is made this way, with the antibacterial agent added while the synthetic polymer is still in a liquid stage, before it is cooled and spun into fibers. The Clayeux company offers a line of antibacterial pajamas, sweat shirts, and jump suits for small children.
A T-shirt that mixes ceramic fibers with polyester, also from Damart, offers almost twice the protection from the sun as an ordinary T-shirt. In addition to reflecting harmful ultraviolet rays, the ceramic fibers also block infrared rays that heat the body.
T-shirts could one day also make use of a technique whereby cotton or polyester is "impregnated" with an ingredient that kills mosquitoes on contact. The technique is already used to make super-effective mosquito netting. The mosquito-killing chemical does not harm humans, according to the company that makes the fabric, Billon Technic.
But many clothing manufacturers agree that standards of safety testing need to be established for the new breed of "super" clothes, because some may have unintended side effects. For example, antibacterial clothes could kill beneficial microorganisms living on the skin that help fight off infection.
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2. http://www.search.com/reference/High-tech_architecture - by looking through this site, you can learn some information about aims, characteristics
and examples of high tech architecture
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-tech_architecture - by looking through this site, you can learn some information about background and origin of the name of high tech
4. http://www.answers.com/topic/high-tech - here you can look for dictionaries and articles about high tech
5. http://www.londonhotelsuk.net/ru/page/26-Architecture/ -here you can find examples of high tech architecture in
6.http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=2132 – it’s a useful source about
7.http://www.allbusiness.com/professional-scientific/scientific-research/408209-1.html - needful information about high tech clothes and places, where you can buy it
8. http://www.damart.com.au/ you can notice examples of high tech clothes and judge them by quality and price.
9. http://www.swicofil.com/rhovyl_antibacterial.html - If you want to know from which materials is high tech clothes made, you can look here
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Calatrava - is an article about Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer
11. www.youtube.com/ - here you can find different video files.
12. http://video.mail.ru/mail/gvozdika-71/122/123.html - here you can see a nice video about high tech interior
13. http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/2782984 - is an excellent search for some definitions, short articles and examples
14. http://www.search.com/reference/Le_Corbusier - is an article about Le Corbusier was a Swiss-born architect and writer
15. http://www.search.com/reference/Centre_Georges_Pompidou is an article about Centre Georges Pompidou
16. http://freshome.com/2008/01/16/sofa-bed-transformer-furniture/ - here you can find some information about sofa-bed transformer, which is widely used in high tech
17. http://www.vsl.net/tabid/157/contentid/194/Default.aspx - here you can get acquainted with post-tensioning and pre-tensioning systems, which are used in high tech furniture
18. http://www.12vhalogenbulb.com/ - it’s an breathtaking article about 12v Halogen Bulbs which find a use in high tech interior
19. http://www.scva.org.uk/ - it’s a link which provides you with information about The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
20. http://www.uea.ac.uk/ - it’s
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