New technology to cool the body: make the clothes made of microorganisms

Summer has arrived, a move a sweat, fixed whole body sweat. Doing nothing lying at home eating ice pants blowing air conditioning cool.

The idea of ​​the scientists is not the case, the scientists to solve is how to wear clothes everywhere chaos is not sweating problems.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's research team has recently designed a breathable sportswear that is different from the breathability of other similar clothing, which allows the opening of a garment to open and close with the user's body's calorie changes through biotechnology.

The opening is called the flap, only the size of the nail, its top covered with active cells, the cells can be based on changes in humidity and temperature contraction and expansion, so that living cells as both clothes "sensor" and "start Device ", the design is very novel.

Yale of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology presided over the research work of the project, and she and the team tried to use some micro-organisms rather than motor to achieve some of the features.

Ning said, for designers, biology is a very promising new discipline, because it is highly adaptable. In biology, you can imagine some of the electronic products can not achieve the function.

With the continuous development of biotechnology, researchers have now been able to easily develop this active cells.

The team was tested and tested that the cells were expanded and contracted under both moisture and heat conditions, and that it did not cause adverse reactions due to direct contact with the human body.

When people sweat in the movement, the body of heat and sweat water vapor makes the flap start, so as to achieve the effect of ventilation.

From the test data, this ventilation effect can significantly reduce the temperature on the skin, not only in the cooling performance is still very good, but also the user does not feel skin discomfort.

Ning's team made the natto cells biofilm, and then printed on the spandex fabric. The biofilm printing different patterns, can produce different effects. For example, the biofilm is evenly printed on the fabric, allowing the fabric to roll softly.

If printed as a line, the fabric can be bent more sharp. Ning explained that cells can respond to various levels of humidity, and in 100% humidity environment, it is completely open, to achieve the greatest degree of permeability.

"We can also combine cells with genetic tools and introduce other functions into these living cells," said Wen , a former research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab and Engineering Department.

To fluorescent, for example, if the fitness service glow, you can let the user running in the dark; the future we can also combine the role of genetic engineering combined with odor release. So after going to the gym, the shirt can also release a very good smell of smell.

The research team not only hope that this technology can be used in the fitness shirt, they said the next step will be considered ventilation sports shoes, to see if this biotechnology can also experience the experience of a significant sense of heat.