{"id":914011,"date":"2026-06-19T18:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/chemists-create-water-armor-that-prevents-stains-and-germs-from-sticking-to-clothing\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:12:15","slug":"chemists-create-water-armor-that-prevents-stains-and-germs-from-sticking-to-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/chemists-create-water-armor-that-prevents-stains-and-germs-from-sticking-to-clothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemists create ‘water armor’ that prevents stains and germs from sticking to clothing \u202a"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists have invented a self-cleaning coating that prevents stains from food, oil or dirt from sticking to a fabric’s surface, making the spots easy to remove without detergent or large amounts of water. The coating, which creates a protective ultrathin layer of water its developers call “molecular water armor,” could reduce the water and electricity demand of household laundry by over 80%, new research suggests.<\/p>\n

Washing clothes is a basic necessity of everyday life, but laundry has a huge environmental footprint because it produces vast amounts of wastewater. A single cycle in a household washing machine uses 10.5 to 16 gallons (40 to 60 liters) of clean water<\/u><\/a>, while the detergents required to remove stains promote the release of microplastics from synthetic fibers and leave chemical residues in the discharged water.<\/p>\n

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Scientists have invented a self-cleaning coating that prevents stains from food, oil or dirt from sticking to a fabric’s surface, making the spots easy to remove without detergent or large amounts of water. The coating, which creates a protective ultrathin layer of water its developers call “molecular water armor,” could reduce the water and electricity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":914012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22168,2904],"tags":[20375,5462],"class_list":["post-914011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chemists","category-create","tag-chemists","tag-create"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}