Fabric is a porous material with structure on multiple lengthscales (IMAGE)

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Fabric is a porous material with structure on multiple lengthscales

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Fabric is a porous material with structure on multiple lengthscales. The top three images, from left to right, depict successively smaller lengthscales. At the largest lengthscale, fabric is a lattice woven from perpendicular yarns that go over and under other yarns at right angles to them.

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Richard P. Sear

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