Clothing is no longer deleted, and self-cleaning!

Chinese researchers have come up with technology that will soon release a self-cleaning jeans. Their cotton fabric can under the influence of the sun not only the best to get rid of dirt, and bacteria.

For those who are not too fond of washing clothes This news seems just fine. A team of scientists from the University of Shanghai is developing self-cleaning cotton, which one day could go back in time the washing process. Made of fabric items of clothing that cover the special titanium dioxide, which breaks down dirt and kills bacteria when exposed to sunlight.

This component is already used in a number of subjects, including the self-cleaning windows and tiled covering in kitchens, as well as socks, odorless. Self-cleaning cotton manufactures and before, but only for the specific use, as their actions showed only when exposed to ultraviolet rays. They account for only a fraction of the solar radiation.

Science needed to learn how to make a fabric that would be able to clean itself under normal sunlight. And Chinese scientists achieved this by adding titanium dioxide, nitrogen, silver and iodine. So just over two hours in the sun ugly orange stain from the fabric surface is completely gone.

This self-cleaning composition is applied to jeans and other clothes once. And do not be afraid that it will be washed off as soon as the traditional washing or normal rain - the composition maintains its presence. And it gives us hope that in the near future " washing clothes "Joins a list of human activities, forever consigned to the past.

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