Easier Than Ever?
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Easier Than Ever?
Scientists in Indiana, Wisconsin and Australia have developed nanotechnology-based coatings that clean themselves and could be used in everything from silk shirts to windshields. Twenty hours after being splashed with red wine and exposed to simulated sunlight, stains on the nanotech-treated fabrics were almost completely gone.

 
 
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