{"621219":{"#nid":"621219","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Science of Knitting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u0026rsquo;ve ever been lucky enough to receive a handmade sweater as a gift...you may never have thought of your crafty relative as the engineering type.\u0026nbsp;Knitters actually spend a huge amount of time planning out the structure of their creations. After all, it isn\u0026rsquo;t easy to create a three-dimensional, highly structured object from a one-dimensional strand of yarn. Textile engineers contend with dozens of competing factors like strength, elasticity, texture, and cost. While these have traditionally been relegated to the fashion industry,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/matsumoto.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDr. \u003Cstrong\u003EElisabetta Matsumoto\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026rsquo;s lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech sees them as a rich, hitherto unexplored field of physics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-05-02 14:19:30","changed_gmt":"2019-05-02 14:19:30","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Pardyot Yadav","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2019\/04\/the-science-of-knitting.html","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618985":{"id":"618985","type":"image","title":"The science of knitting (Credit: Elisabetta Matsumoto)","body":null,"created":"1552054856","gmt_created":"2019-03-08 14:20:56","changed":"1552054856","gmt_changed":"2019-03-08 14:20:56","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235627","name":"2019 knitting by Sabetta.Matsumoto.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019%20knitting%20by%20Sabetta.Matsumoto.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019%20knitting%20by%20Sabetta.Matsumoto.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":490473,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2019%20knitting%20by%20Sabetta.Matsumoto.jpg?itok=fenE2SQN"}}},"media_ids":["618985"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}