Self-cleaning wool and silk
12 February, 2008 – 1:01That is what I call a cool and convenient invention. Soon garments made of wool and silk may need no dry cleaning or other special treatment in order to remove marks and stains - just expose them to sunlight. It is all due to a nano particle coating already in use in the windows manufacturing process.
Researches have carried out tests with red wine stains on wool and silk (two very popular, but very difficult to keep clean type fibres) and have achieved a substantial reduction in the colour of the red wine after hours of sunlight exposure.
It is all in the very early stages of research and testing but who knows - we may soon be buying self-cleaning socks or shirts.