Chemists Unveil Future Self-Cleaning Clothes : The Two-Way. Hide captionIn the future, cleaning your clothes could be as easy as hanging it in sunlight.
Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images In the future, cleaning your clothes could be as easy as hanging it in sunlight. A group of chemists have presented what they say is self-cleaning fabric that could one day lead to jeans, shirts and other clothing that dissolves stains and kills bacteria when exposed to sunlight. The scientists announced their findings in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, which is peer-reviewed and published by the American Chemical Society.
Pop Science reports that they accomplished the feat by coating cotton with titanium dioxide, which oxidizes organic material: Other researchers have incorporated titanium dioxide into clothes before, but they don't get clean unless exposed to ultraviolet light, which isn't exactly practical. In its press release, the American Chemical Society says the coating stays "intact after washing and drying.
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