University of Malaga designs a shirt that produces electricity

Name: University of Malaga designs a shirt that produces electricity
Uploaded: 2020-02-12
Duration: 1 min 1 s
Channel: tecnologia

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Researchers at the Faculty of Science of the University of Malaga have developed a "low cost" t-shirt that generates electricity thanks to the temperature difference between the body and the environment. This is the prototype-e-textile ’, developed together with the Italian Institute of Technology of Genoa (IIT), based on sustainable methods and low-cost materials such as tomato skin. The formula is very simple: water and ethanol - a type of organic alcohol - derived from tomato skin and carbon nanoparticles. A solution that, according to experts, when heated, penetrates and adheres to cotton, thereby achieving electrical properties such as those generated by tellurium, germanium or lead, but from biodegradable materials.

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