A glass of red wine's got nothing on this white T-shirt — and if you were to spill the glass, the shirt won't show a drop of it.
Young entrepreneur Aamir Patel has created the Silic, a T-shirt that is supposedly impossible to stain. The shirt is embedded with superhydrophobic nanotechnology, which uses microscopic structures to repel water-based liquids by forming a layer of air between the fabric and liquid molecules.
This causes the liquid to bead up into a 150 degree sphere and roll right off the shirt, avoiding unwanted stains.
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Silic gets its name from the billions of silica particles that layer the fabric. Even when wearing a Silic shirt while working up a sweat, this liquid will evaporate into the air instead of into the fabric. For the shirt's design, Patel has teamed up with a former designer from Vera Wang.
Patel's launch of Silic on Kickstarter has raised more than $60,000, tripling the initial funding goal of $20,000. Orders will ship by May. The shirts will eventually be for sale in commercial stores.
"I have already been contacted by a swarm of retailers, who are hoping to start getting the shirt into stores," Patel told Mashable. "I want to pursue these relationships after the campaign is over and bring Silic to the world."
Silic has been compared to NeverWet, a spray that can be used on clothing or objects to repel liquids, but in Silic's Kickstarter campaign video Patel claims NeverWet contains cancerous chemicals.
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Image: Silic Kickstarter Campaign