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British Designer Susan Lee Clothes Can Be "Planted" Out.

2013/5/17 21:25:00 57

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British fashion designer Susan Lee has been following the fashion line until she meets some scientists.

Since 2011, she has collaborate with professors and students from synthetic textiles and industrial design department from Cambridge, hoping to use bacterial cellulose to produce raw materials for making clothes.

In the end, she achieved success and delivered a speech at TED, a non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of creativity.

"Have you ever thought about it? Actually our clothes can be planted."

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sugar and fungi to culture

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as a fashion designer, Susan used to use cotton, wool, leather or chemical products to design and make clothes.

But after talking with some experts, she began to study new materials, such as green tea, sugar, some bacteria and a little time.

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it sounds very mysterious, but according to her introduction, the process is quite simple.

"First of all, we start with boiled tea, and I cook almost 30 litres of tea every time."

It is worth mentioning that although the green tea we usually use will appear green when it starts brewing, the color will darken after long cooking.

So when the 30 litre "green tea" is put into the growth pond, it has already presented a kind of brick red color.

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when Susan is still hot, he will add several kilograms of sugar.

Then stir until the sugar is completely dissolved, then pour the liquid into a growth pool.

"We need to confirm the temperature to ensure that it falls below 30 degrees Celsius.

Then add the live micro substance. I usually use Kombucha. "

Cooling is quite necessary, because many microorganisms can not tolerate high temperature, will be killed, thereby losing their activity, there is no way to ferment.

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self built Mini raw material plant

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finally add some acetic acid in the liquid, and then maintain the growth pool at a suitable growth temperature.

Susan said that she would place an electric blanket under the pool and use a thermostat to regulate the temperature of the electric blanket.

In fact, when the weather is hot, it can also be cultivated outside.

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in the sunlight, these 60 cm wide and 150 cm long pools are arranged side by side. Each pool has a blue plastic covering film, which looks a little like a miniature mushroom culture farm.

In fact, they are fungi like mushrooms.

"This is my mini raw material plant," Susan said with pride.

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About 3 days after P, there will be bubbles on the surface of the liquid.

The sugar in the liquid gives the bacteria the nutrients they grow, so they begin to "spin" very very fine nanofibers.

"These are very pure cellulose, which are bonded to each other and form a fibrous layer. Finally, a large amount of fibrous cloth appears on the surface of the liquid.

About two to three weeks later, we can see an inch thick blanket.

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When p is collected, Susan will take the blanket out of the pool and rinse it in cold soapy water.

The blanket is thick and sticky.

It is very similar to jellyfish, which contains more than 90% of water.

Jellyfish need to be put into brine to remove moisture, and the moisture of the blanket must be removed by evaporation.

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"P > according to normal mode

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to evaporate the moisture of the blanket, you can spread it on a piece of wood and air it out in the open air.

When the blanket is dried, it shrinks.

Depending on the formula used, the designer may get a very thin and pparent sheet like paper, or something that is perfectly elastic like a plant skin.

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thus, a fabric which is completely different from any previous material has been published.

Because this is organic material, Susan tried to minimize the amount of chemicals.

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"P >" you can use it to tailor, sew in accordance with the customary way, and also wet them, wrap them in three-dimensional objects, and make a pair of leather shoes.

When the material is dried, they will adhere and bind together automatically. "

Of course, she not only designs clothes for others, but also wears "jackets" that she wears.

It looks a little red and very light.

"This is the color of green tea. It looks a bit like human skin."

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there will be great development in the future .

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Susan's speech on TED attracted many people's attention. Both the participants on the scene and later visitors were interested in her cellulose clothes.

However, she herself said there were still many things she wanted to do but failed to make, and more efforts and investment needed in the future.

"If there's anything I haven't succeeded, I can't make it waterproof.

If I walk in the rain in this jacket, I will start to absorb water immediately.

A lot of water made the clothes heavy, and finally all of them opened, which made me feel like I was not wearing clothes.

It sounds like a great performance, isn't it? But it's really not suitable for everyday wear. "

Susan said.

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for Susan and other ordinary consumers, the benefits and expectations of science are that we can grow anything we want without wasting.

In fact, if we have our own "mini material factory", we can use the waste sugar water from the food factory to make the medium.

Most importantly, these clothes can naturally be degraded after use, just like the usual skin and vegetables.

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Less than P, of course, she also stressed that cellulose clothing could not replace cotton, leather or other textiles in the future.

"But I believe that for today's precious natural resources, it will be a very ingenious and sustainable aid."

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extended reading

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clothes become "charger" .

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with the development of science and technology, people rely on electronic equipment more and more seriously.

But both ordinary and front-line soldiers may encounter the exhaustion of electronic equipment.

Researchers from the Commonwealth of Australia scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have developed a set of "power suits" that can be directly worn on them.

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Before P, there were portable products using piezoelectric effect to generate electricity, but they were not suitable for wearable clothes.

The real way to make clothes "generate electricity" depends on the technology of "flexural ultra-thin electronic components" which has been developing continuously in recent years.

The Samsung Corp developed a printed circuit board with a thickness of not more than 0.08 millimeters. It is applied to clothes to ensure light weight and allow clothes to bend at will.

Wearing this "power suit", people can make use of the pressure between different parts of the body and clothes, clothes and clothes to generate electricity and make use of it.

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because the cost of this kind of clothing is very high and the shape is not so beautiful, it will take some time to get out of the world.

But for the army, they are of great use. They can ensure smooth communication between the front and rear sides.

It is reported that Australia has provided nearly $4 million 500 thousand to the project.

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fabric will also read mind /p.

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in addition to the style of clothes, people have done enough work on fabrics.

The Georgia Institute of science and technology has invented a fabric that can detect the overall physical condition of the wearer, making it into clothes and promoting it in a small area in the army and sports circles.

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researchers used nanomaterials to make fabrics and implanted optical fibers into them.

The latter is a miniature biochemical sensor and physiological induction instrument, which can detect many important indicators such as heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature of the wearer, and identify whether there is bleeding site on the body surface.

If it is determined to be hurt, the garment can shrink rapidly and play the role of tourniquet.

At the same time, the clothes can also send signals automatically, so that they can connect the clothes to the rear computer system, so that the rear can keep track of the scene at any time.

If the clothes perceive that the wearer has no heart rate, it will stop sending signals and let the rear know that they have lost him / her.

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originally a military project, it was funded by the US Navy in 1996.

But researchers later found that it could be applied not only to soldiers, but also to athletes and fitness enthusiasts.

At present, the Textronics company in the United States has made use of this technology to produce sportswear underwear and sportswear with similar functions.