It can't get wet and will not stain. Unlike current waterproofing chemical agents that have been proven unsafe, the 21-year-old enterpreneur and his team have developed a process that uses silica, a natural mineral used in the production of cement, to produce clothes that are super hydrophobic. "On the nano-scale when we bind it to the fiber it is physically repelling hydrogen atoms. So anything that is water based is not going to be able to touch it. So what happens is that it creates a very high surface tension and with that surface tension the water molecules kind of bead up so they turn into spheres, and in that form they can roll off the shirt very easily." The company raised nearly 300,000 dollars in crowd funding efforts and Patel says the first orders will be shipping out soon.
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