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micro chain mail stay-clean fabric
You've seen chain mail. Just make it tinier than water permeability, and out of silicon nitride or possibly PTFE to give a stronger cleaner fabric | |
Shoes that last longer than people would be nice. As would things that do not get dirty. I think it is possible that really micro chain-mail made of something very strong would do both. Links made of silicon nitride, Teflon, or just possibly a fluorinated nylon could possibly do it.
Anorak with chain mail under-arm vents
http://i220.photobu...Armour/DSCF5268.jpg
[pocmloc, Jun 27 2017]
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Shoes already last longer than people, they just do most of it in landfills. This will only exacerbate that. |
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NOW, if you could come up with some way to make them break down when you were tired of them, THAT would be a different matter. |
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Ooh I like this.
You need to figure out a way for the fabric to only allow water penetration in one direction or some folks won't want to wear their shoes for very long at all. |
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You could make each interlocking ring in the shape of a microscopic Tesla conduit that would only wick air and water in a given direction... and once we figure out how to grow these shapes from Fullerene they'll be bomb proof.
Now about those socks... (+) |
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People should wear full sized chain mail as an everyday fabric more. |
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[2 fries] Man your fast. Just add in a few factual stepping
stones, and you'll be invincible. |
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I can see that PTFE will help, but why chain mail? What would be the improvement over a woven PTFE cloth? |
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Chain mail is more cool than woven cloth. |
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Perhaps cool in the temperature sense of the word, as long as you stay out of the sun and don't move around. |
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I've worn real chain mail exactly once, and I gave it back to it's owner after a very brief period of time. Its very heavy. |
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[mb] PTFE is fairly soft, and chain mail from silicon nitride would be hard, thus more durable. The micro size gives it "drape", the ability to bend a lot when contacting things. |
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Silicon nitride, as far as I'm aware, is hard but not particularly strong and certainly not tough - it has a work of fracture similar to glass. So, I don't think it would be durable. |
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Nice idea, [beanangel]. Your concepts, and your writing in particular, have been somewhat better of late.
Although, perhaps move this to :fashion:material..? |
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Chain mail is more cool than woven cloth.
— pocmloc, Jun 27 2017 |
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You might have found that to be the case because hairs poking through the links wick away moisture and so cool evaporatively. You must have a lot of hairs for this to work. |
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Or should that be "one must"? |
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The PFTE version of this is really just another way of
describing TYVEK and CUBEN fibre fabrics. They're not a
chain mail - but rather nonwoven fabric formed through
trickery and magic. |
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But they have the properties you're after, which is why
they're increasingly used for high performance ultralight
outdoor equipment and clothing. |
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This is the relentless search for stronger, tougher and lightier materials. How about spider proteins moulded into tiny chainmail links to form a webchain clothes. |
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