There isn’t any piece of clothing as waterproof to stay underwater for two months and still come out all dry. But when you soak the swiss made nanofabric into water for two months, it comes out just as the dry on the very first day it was put in there. The water rests as spherical crystals on the fabric which can be rolled off by slightly tilting the fabric. Swiss chemists from the University of Zurich claim to have developed a fabric from polyester fibers coated with millions of 40-nanometer-wide silicone nanofilaments. A permanent air layer (trapped in the silicone nanofilaments) protects water from seeping into the polyester fibres underneath, making the fabric the most water-repellent clothing ever created. The fabric which never gets wet remains dry to touch, even after it is submerged into water for two months. This fabric calls in the era of self-cleaning clothes, and can be added to other textiles, including wool and cotton.
NewScientists via: Gizmodo
