Video: New Fabric Coating Protects Your Clothes, and the Environment
Thursday, May 4, 2017 - 13:51
in Earth & Climate
ITHACA, N.Y. - When you spill pasta sauce on your favorite shirt but there is no trace of it after being washed, you can thank oleophobicity, a resistance to oil commonly applied to textiles. That resistance, however, comes at a price. The coating that makes textiles oil resistant is fluorine-based and breaks down into chlorofluorocarbon gas, a greenhouse gas harmful to the environment.