See how we’re using material technology to build the future

Graphene is the lightest, strongest, most conductive material ever discovered... It also comes with a Nobel Prize. While the existence of graphene as a supermaterial was first theorised in the 1940s, it wasn’t until 2004 that two maverick scientists at the University of Manchester were able to isolate and test it. In 2010 their work won them the Nobel Prize. Thanks to their pioneering work we’ve been creating our own world-firsts with graphene since 2018.

We used over 100 layers of pure graphene to create the Thermal Camouflage Jacket. It’s the first computer-programmable jacket. And a first step towards an invisibility cloak. Because in infrared you can program entire parts of it to simply disappear.

If you’ve never heard of aerogel before, it’s an insulator, and an astonishingly effective one. Which is exactly why NASA use it to line their spacesuits. It’s almost impossible for cold air to pass through it as its individual nanopores are 10,000 times thinner than a human hair. After 10 years of R&D, a durable aerogel insulation came into being, and that is what you will find lining our Martian Aerogel Jacket.

We're exploring metal as one of the future building blocks of bionic and intelligent clothing. Our Full Metal Jacket was hailed by WIRED as “the virus-killing coat of the future” and won TIME Best Inventions, while our Steel Blazer is made from 24% stainless steel, the same material as the first SpaceX starship.

Weight for weight, Dyneema is 15x stronger than steel. Which is why you’ll find it in body armour, anti-ballistic vehicle armour, and mooring systems for giant container ships. Today we also use it to build our Indestructible range which includes the world’s strongest jacket, puffer, and belt.

Fluorescent and phosphorescent materials absorb high-energy UV light that the human eye can’t see, and re-emit it as low-energy light that it can see. The only difference between the two of them is how long that process takes. Fluorescent materials re-emit light instantly, so you need a constant source of UV light to see them. Phosphorescent materials re-emit light over time, giving them a glow-in-the-dark effect that can last for seconds, minutes, or hours after the light source is removed. Thanks to the two different membranes, The Firefly Jacket does both.