{"id":26376,"date":"2016-06-02T10:48:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/new-nanotech-fabric-dissolves-odor-and-stains-whenever-its-exposed-to-bright-light"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:09","slug":"new-nanotech-fabric-dissolves-odor-and-stains-whenever-its-exposed-to-bright-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/new-nanotech-fabric-dissolves-odor-and-stains-whenever-its-exposed-to-bright-light","title":{"rendered":"New nanotech fabric dissolves odor and stains whenever it\u2019s exposed to bright light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-nanotech-fabric-dissolves-odor-and-stains-whenever-its-exposed-to-bright-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not a big fan of laundry day? Well what if you could wash your clothes just by stepping into the sunshine? Thanks to researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, a <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/admi.201500632\/abstract;jsessionid=15FE85E195FA569C69049D39FF2F4A27.f03t01\" target=\"_blank\">self-cleaning textile could make that possible<\/a> in the very near future. With the help of special nanostructures grown directly into the fabric, these new textiles could degrade organic matter like dirt, dust, and sweat when exposed to a concentrated light source.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this effect, the nanostructures used by the RMIT University team are made copper and silver. These metals are great at absorbing visible light, and when they\u2019re exposed to light from the sun or even a light bulb, the nanostructures react with increased energy that creates \u201chot electrons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href='http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/tech-behind-columbia-outdry-extreme-omni-heat-omni-dry\/'>Columbia\u2019s most comfortable clothes are also its smartest, thanks to textile tech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/self-cleaning-clothes-rmit-nano-enhanced-textile\/?utm_content=buffer91ee8&utm_medium=socialm&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=DT-FB#:j-A6nuIvYYzMMQ\">http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/self-cleaning-clothes...nuIvYYzMMQ<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a big fan of laundry day? Well what if you could wash your clothes just by stepping into the sunshine? Thanks to researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, a self-cleaning textile could make that possible in the very near future. With the help of special nanostructures grown directly into the fabric, these new textiles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67367,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26376\/revisions\/67367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}