Silic: The Impossible to Stain T-Shirt

Silic is a concept T-shirt that promises to stay dry and repel water-based stains.

According to Aamir Patel, the creator of Silic, the shirt is embedded with “hydrophobic nanotechnology“, which uses microscopic structures to repel water-based liquids by forming a layer of air between the fabric and liquid molecules.

The polyester fabric is layered with billions of silica particles. These cause water-based liquids to simply roll off the material rather than soak into it.

To fund his project, Patel created a page on Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website. The shirt has now exceeded its funding goal of $20,000 before the campaign closes on January 26. The shirts are expected to be on sale online from May and will cost around £30.

According to Patel’s Kickstarter page, there are certain steps wearers have to take to make sure the T-shirt stays waterproof. These include not using of fabric softener in a machine wash, no bleaching, washing with like colors and no ironing. Patel also advises wearers not to dry clean the shirt.

The T-shirt must also be put through a tumble dryer on a low heat at least once every three washes to reactivate the water repellency.

“The T-shirts we have now are completely safe and will last for up to 80 washes, so you get around about two year’s worth of wear out of it”, Patel said.

Source: dailymail.co.uk, kickstarter.com