200 Times The Size Of The Cotton Fabric Covered By Nanostructures.

The research team of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Australia has developed a new method to promote the growth of special nanostructures.

Exposure to sunlight can directly degrade the stains.

This means that after washing dirty clothes in the sun, washing machines will be washed out and washing machines will be eliminated.

According to the 22 report of physicists tissue network, this study paved the way for enhancing the future of nano textiles to clean up stains and dirt on their own. The results are published in the latest issue of the journal.

Ramanathan, the team leader, said that the research results have been developed for a variety of application products based on the catalyst industry, such as agricultural chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and so on, and can be easily scale to industrial production level.

"The advantage of textiles is their three-dimensional structure, the ability to absorb light strongly, which in turn accelerates the degradation of organic compounds," he said.

Much work remains to be done before its popularity is likely to start washing out, and this progress has laid a solid foundation for the future development of textiles' completely self-cleaning. "

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"Impregnation" in light allows them to increase their energy and create "hot electrons".

These "hot electrons" release large amounts of energy, allowing nanomaterials to degrade organic matter.

The new method enables the development of enhanced nanomaterials to achieve a stable structure within 30 minutes, while less than 6 minutes after exposure to sunlight, some of them can be self cleaned.

At present, the challenge for researchers is to enable the concept to be realized outside the laboratory, and strive to achieve the industrial scale of these nanostructures and permanently attach them to textiles.

The researchers say the next step will be to test the performance of the enhanced nano textiles to remove some organic compounds, so as to detect how quickly they can remove stains that consumers often do on clothing, such as tomato paste or wine drops.

It may be too early to replace washing machines. Even now, tomato sauce and wine drops have not been tested. Besides, there are still stubborn stains that are harder to remove, such as oil stains and pigments. It will take quite a long time for this technology to become practical.

However, the use of sunlight to clean stains is very fresh and promising. In addition to textiles, most of them need to be cleaned by water, which is also good for environmental protection.

In addition, it may save many "curtilage" and "lazy people" and drive them to clean clothes and body and mind in sunny families, thereby solving this stubborn social problem.