{"id":98464,"date":"2019-11-13T13:03:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/no-more-washing-nano-enhanced-textiles-clean-themselves-with-light"},"modified":"2019-11-13T13:03:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:03:45","slug":"no-more-washing-nano-enhanced-textiles-clean-themselves-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/no-more-washing-nano-enhanced-textiles-clean-themselves-with-light","title":{"rendered":"No more washing: Nano-enhanced textiles clean themselves with light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-more-washing-nano-enhanced-textiles-clean-themselves-with-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spot of sunshine is all it could take to get your washing done, thanks to pioneering nano research into self-cleaning textiles.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a cheap and efficient new way to grow special <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanostructures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanostructures<\/a>\u2014which can degrade organic matter when exposed to light\u2014directly onto <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/textiles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">textiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The work paves the way towards nano-enhanced textiles that can spontaneously clean themselves of stains and grime simply by being put under a light bulb or worn out in the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spot of sunshine is all it could take to get your washing done, thanks to pioneering nano research into self-cleaning textiles. Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a cheap and efficient new way to grow special nanostructures\u2014which can degrade organic matter when exposed to light\u2014directly onto textiles. The work paves the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98464","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}