Fibrous stainless steel

These super fine wisps of grey fluff are in fact tiny filaments of stainless steel. Each strand is around a 10th of the thickness of a human hair and make for form of steel like no other – one that is soft and able to be spun into yarns and woven into cloth. If you hold a magnet against the fibres you can see each little hair rise and fall. It still has the weight of steel and is for some a skin irritant as the super fine fibres can tickle. The fibres can be combined with other materials to produce a variety of effects like embedded conductivity and structural reinforcement. Explore fibrous stainless steel on the Institute of Making website: https://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/materials-library/material/fibrous-stainless-steel.

Added By:	Dr Zoe Laughlin
Date Added:	12 Feb 2019 10:37
Creators Name:	Dr Zoe Laughlin
Tags:	material, materials library, institute of making, steel, solid, superlative materials, metal, textile, silver, metallic, hair, yarn, stainless
Viewing permissions:	World
URL:	https://open-education-repository.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/317
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