Biomimetics

This is a new area of research looking at how nature does things and then attempting to copy the technology, technique, material in new and interesting applications....

I think that these materials will also be important in my design and development process.

Carbon nano tubes could provide invisibility to 3d objects

I am starting to realsie that I am working in a field of very interesting materials, that could be applied in a new way to space couture. This article is on the BBC and talks about how carbon nano tubes applied to the surface of 3D objects may turn them invisible by bending light around an object.
It seems like a great opportunity to create garments that seem to not be there....