New Self-Cleaning Fabric Could Reduce Laundry Water Use by 80%

New Self-Cleaning Fabric Could Reduce Laundry Water Use by 80%

Clear water streams down a polo shirt. Credit: GR Archive A new coating that turns ordinary fabric into a self-cleaning material could transform how people do laundry. Researchers developed the coating by alternately spraying two chemical compounds onto different fabric types. The result is a surface so hydrated that stains, bacteria, and fungi wash away with plain tap water, cutting overall water, electricity, and time consumption by roughly 82…