Creating, modifying and improving textiles at molecular levels and increasing their performance is possible nowadays thanks to nanotechnologies. Their use provides developing textile industry with new features such as antibacterial or hydro-repellent properties, and many others.
Currently in Spain, there is the AITEX (Textile Research Institute) which has been inventing and researching new textile properties that can make our lives easier. Clearly, this science may be very important in the future. However, more and more companies like Nike or Ralph Lauren have been making use of these special properties implementing these new technologies in their production.