Chain Mail Fabric a Perfect Fit Contemporaries of the ancient Greeks might find something familiar within the walls of the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab at the University of Illinois. In constructing a new type of smart fabric, researchers Jonathan Engel and Chang Liu have used interconnecting rings and links to create a textile looking a bit like the chain mail used by warriors dating back 2,000-plus years. in Public bookmarkswith coolgreeks-n-geeksmemsnanotechnologytextile