RMIT University researchers have developed a flexible nylon-film device that generates electricity from compression and keeps working even after being run over by a car multiple times, opening the ...

Researchers in Australia have developed a flexible nylon-film device that generates electricity from compression and keeps ...

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t tend to ...

Pretty much everything that doesn’t grow on trees has to be some kind of plastic, right? It seems like the world in the 21st ...

Nylon, the world's first entirely synthetic polymer fiber, was introduced by the DuPont company in 1938. Known for its strength, durability, and flexibility, the company originally marketed nylon ...