Your Clothes Could Soon Scrub Pollution Directly From The Air
Field of Jeans CatClo works particularly well on denim. DED AssociatesA new laundry additive turns ordinary garments into wearable air-scrubbers that pull nitrogen oxides from the atmosphere. Your washing machine and dryer are both energy intensive machines, but soon your rinse cycle could start giving something back. A liquid laundry additive called "CatClo" (for "catalytic clothing") developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield and London College of Fashion in the UK could imbue clothing with titanium dioxice nanoparticles that scrub nitrogen oxides from the air and oxidize them in the fabric. On the next wash, these nitrogen oxides are simply washed away. Via a press release from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council: The nitrogen oxides treated in this way are completely odourless and colourless and pose no pollution hazard as they are removed harmlessly when the item of clothing is next washed, if they haven't already been dissipated harmlessly...