PRACTISED FABRIC, the outlet MOISTURE
American researchers have managed to find a new application technologies that are widely used to create microfluidic devices and chips. The combination of repellent and moisture absorbent fibers contributed to the creation of fabrics, diverting fluid in the right direction. This development can be used for sewing clothes.
Clothing of the new tissue will be permeable to water vapor between the fibers take the pot by capillary properties of the filaments. Drops are displayed on the outer surface.
The researchers explained that in the case of ordinary thread wetting effectively cease to hold moisture, and their creation continues to pump water due to the additional pressure that is created inside the droplets by surface tension. If the surface does not possess these properties, then instead of going to drop to a thin layer of moisture, but on the surface of the liquid self-assemble in large drops. Clothing should remain dry even during long training sessions or during operation at elevated temperatures.
Laboratory for Micro Nano Innovations, employing researchers engaged mostly biomedical devices, biochips. For rapid tests require special materials that guide the fluid in the right direction.
