ANTWERP, Belgium — This city is known for its diamonds, but for Swarovski, Antwerp was a fitting stage to showcase the latest adventures in crystal. Two new crystal applications for smooth leather ...

Leather hardening has been around for such a long time that one might think that there was little left to discover, but [Jason F. Timmermans] certainly showed that is not the case. Right around the ...

The leather industry produces large volumes of solid waste, including trimmings, shavings, buffing dust and sludge, often rich in collagen, chromium and residual organics. Valorization techniques ...

Historical leather and parchment artefacts are complex collagen-based materials that undergo a range of degradation processes, including hydrolysis, oxidation and mechanical embrittlement. Modern ...