Tea shirts: clothes made from tea juice can be melted into new clothes

Article source: China Net? British fashion designers collaborated with fiber scientists to develop a very light-weight garment that is both leather-like and textile-like.
This fabric has been used to make shirts, jackets, women's clothing, and even shoes.
The British call it "tea shirt".
The reason is that it is made from tea, a beverage that is loved by the British.
?? Scientists at King’s College London have been committed to fashion development and design.
They cooperated with Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in the United Kingdom to develop this new type of fabric, tea shirt, which is believed to have a strong practicality.
It can also Processing, dyeing, melting and forming new and different clothes are the charm of tea shirts.
They are convinced that this innovative and sustainable fabric will become more and more important as the development direction of the textile industry.
And raw materials such as traditional cotton, wool and leather will be increasingly restricted.
The tea shirt they developed is made of waste green tea water, sugar and other nutrients through special mixing research and processing.
The green tea mixture can stimulate the growth of acetobacter bacteria to grow cellulose filaments.
After two weeks of wearing, the clothes become stronger and stronger due to the effect of cellulose.
During this period, they also added a large number of bacteria clumps to the cellulose tea juice to make it stick to the surface of the clothes.
After drying, the tea shirt clothes become transparent, similar to transparent straw paper.
? The project was developed by veteran research experts headed by Su Zhanli, who completed it in close cooperation with the designers of the Central Saint Martins Art and Design Institute in the United Kingdom.
Paul, a molecular biologist at King's College in London.
Professor Freeman said, “Bacteria naturally grows out of cellulose fibers.
This kind of bacteria connects into clumps and becomes fabric.
Of course, bacteria clumps often make the surface of the fabric uneven.
So scientists can think of ways to make it strong and durable.
The surface is flat.
This kind of clothes is as strong as leather after drying, and you can’t break it even if you tear it with your hands.
? Su Zhanli met a biologist a few years ago, and they accidentally came up with this idea during the conversation.
She believes that microorganisms can recycle cellulose and make it into textile-like materials.
From this, she also thought of fashion clothes being thrown away by people after wearing them.
Sustainability is becoming more and more important today, how to dispose of waste After that, she found Professor Freeman and Professor Alexander, the materials experts of the Emperor's College.
By coincidence, they were also studying biosynthesis technology.
That is, the cellulose was made into a fungus sheet to make it into a kind of fabric.
Su Zhanli proposed Her own ideas immediately attracted the attention of the two scientists.
Freeman said that Su Zhanli gave them space for imagination, and the two scientists gave her flying wings.
bladder.
The materials used by Su Zhanli also made them unbelievable, completely different from their original fungal cellulose materials.
To this end, they unanimously established this project together, and then tried every means to enhance its new features.
? To get people to wear this kind of clothes and walk on the street, they still face some challenges, such as the smell of this kind of clothes is too strong, the reason is that the bacteria continue to breed.
To overcome such problems, research is needed.
Of course, standards must be set for mass production.
? However, we see that in today's day when natural resources are depleted, what we are facing is a shortage of materials and a reduction in energy, and the number of bacteria will not decrease as long as conditions are available.