Research & Development
Motbo focuses on a premium clothing line that is innovative and sustainable. Giving our customers products that they can wear at work or to a formal event while having the comfort to do their everyday tasks. Striving for all of our designs to be environmentally friendly and have the same quality in aesthetics and comfort as the top haute couture brands around the world. At Motbo, our goal is to create repaired clothing that lasts longer. This creates ultimate comfort in the clothing. In addition, our clothes are sustainably made and produced to meet the highest standards. At Motbo, we place great value in the importance of quality, durability, and style. From there, Motbo will continue to design pieces that express the individuality of people all across this world.
Self healing fabric
A group of researchers at Pennsylvania State University have come up with a great idea to allow a piece of torn tissue to heal by itself. They discovered a protein in cuttlefish that gives the tissue self-healing properties. In the future you may be able to leave your sewing kit in the closet and use fabric that works for you. According to a research team, fabric protective suits coated with a self-healing thin film could protect farmers from exposure to organic phosphates and pesticides, soldiers from chemical and biological attacks in the field and factory workers from accidental releases of toxic materials. To make the suits, the researchers took a pre coated material, dipped it in a series of liquids and formed layers of the material in a self-healing polyelectrolytic layer. The material was then dipped into another liquid to form a layer of structured material that formed the thin film. The thin film was deposited under environmental conditions using a safe solvent such as water with a simple and scalable device.
The coating is strong enough to increase the durability of the clothing and invisible to the naked eye. The coatings may help improve the clothing of soldiers, medical personnel and farmers, said Melik Demirel, a professor of engineering mechanics at Penn State. The coating makes it possible to transform conventional textiles used in plaster and everyday clothing into a fabric that can heal each other. The material consists of fibres consisting of a liquid. It consists of a charged polymer, in the case of the current study a polymer similar to an octopus ring protein. The first self-heating material we are likely to see in mass production is a coating that can with stand weathering and other kinds of surface wear. The coating decomposes over time due to fatigue, environmental conditions and operational damage. Cracks and other damage at the microscopic level show changes in thermal, electrical and acoustic properties of the coating and the spread of cracks leads to material failure. The ideal is to create a material that is hard enough to heal itself from various conditions. Self-healing materials are artificial or man-made substances that are capable of repairing damage to themselves without external diagnosis of the problem or human intervention.
Self cleaning fabric
Scientists in Australia, one of the sunniest places on planet. Earth, have found a way to get rid of clothes with stubborn stains by exposure to sunlight that could replace washing. Cleaning clothes requires soap and water to remove stains and odours, and the clothesline is then dried in the afternoon. Scientists in China developed a cotton cloth that uses sunlight to rid clothes of stains and smells. Self-cleaning garment technology is constantly evolving with new developments in nanotechnology, and one of the latest developments is the development of nanoparticles in textiles that can clean themselves when activated by sunlight. Research by researchers at RMIT led by Dr Rajesh Ramanathans has paved the way for nanore inforced textiles that can clean themselves of stains and dirt by being placed under alight bulb and then worn in the sun. To achieve their results they focused on copper and Silverman particles, known for their ability to absorb visible light. Fabrics injected with cotton fibers for their hydrophobic textiles have a patentednano technological process that results in the textiles being highly resistant to stains, dirt and fluids that roll onto the fabric.
To prevent your clothes from becoming stained, a team at Australia's RMIT University is working to invent a cost-effective and efficient way to clean everyday clothes yourself. They tried to do just that last week, publishing their findings in the journal Advanced Materials Interface. Along the way, they have found a simple and scalable way to incorporate a copper-silver base, known for its ability to absorb visible light, into the nanostructure of textiles. The team says the technology is cheap and efficient and can be scaled to industrial scale, and these attributes give it an advantage over similar self-cleaning fabric technologies. The work also paves the way for nano-reinforced textiles that can clean themselves of dirt by putting on a light bulb and wearing it in the sun. The method developed is a cost-effective and efficient method of growing special nanostructures that break down organic substances when exposed to light, just like textiles.