Science News

Now that it’s the middle of a cold snowy winter, I’m looking forward to my annual summer camping trip. What can make camping even more enjoyable? Self-cleaning clothes. And I don’t mean jumping into the river with your clothes on, but simply just leaving them out in the sun. At least, that’s what we may be able to do one day with the self-cleaning cotton developed by Chinese researchers.

Utilizing polymer nanospheres which take their cues from the way leaves let water run right off of them. Clothes are being designed with nature as its foundation to stop clothes from becoming dirty and even self cleaning.