Bangalore: The day is not far when your jeans, T-shirt and even your inner wear will alert you if you are sick or not, by using a sensor woven into the fabric. Textile Nanotechnologists at Cornell University, New York and University of Cagliari, Italy have found a new way of making transistors from cotton fibers.
“We want to create a seamless interface between electronics and textiles,” says Juan Hinestroza, Director Textiles Nanotechnology Lab at Cornell University, reports Daily Mail.
The scientist also said that this research will also include carpets that can figure out how many people have walked on them, the suits for firefighters which detects in air pollutions and cloths with heat and sweat monitoring sensors.
While this application for the fibers is to use as sensors for transmitting different information about the temperature and other things which you would like to know about the person wearing them. To improve the conductivity of cotton, the scientist team has coated a layer of gold nano-particles and a thin layer of polymer PEDOT.
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