Materials scientists have created fabrics that can both detect light and conduct electricity, suggesting new light-detecting textiles and novel projection screens.
LIGHT WEAVE. This fabric generates an electric signal when illuminated. Nature
Reporting in the Oct. 14 Nature, Yoel Fink and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wove fabrics out of hollow fibers 400 to 500 microns in diameter.
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