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Iowa State University (ISUs) research team is part of a partnership to improve the overall design and function of new military protective gear used in the military, emergency response and more. The ISU research team will be lead by Guowen Song, associate professor and the Noma Scott Lloyd Chair in Textiles and Clothing.

ISU is one of 31 universities involved in the AFFOA partnership, and the new institute is part of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, a network Song said was created to improve manufacturing in the country.

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In the Tangible Media Group within the MIT Media Lab, BioLogic a research team has created a completely new form of performance fabric that combines biomaterials research with textile design. BioLogic is growing living actuators and synthesizing responsive bio-skin in the era where, they declare, “bio is the new interface.” They are imagining a world where actuators and sensors can be grown rather than manufactured, being derived from nature as opposed to engineered in factories.