A potentially spirit - saving hooded bodysuit was debuted over the weekend at the Cornell Fashion Collective , design by Matilda Ceesay ’ 13 , an dress pattern major from Gambia . The one - piece garment — hand - dyed purpleness , gold and juicy — features a mesh topology hood and cape and , as Ceesay explain , “ explores and modernizes traditional African silhouettes and cloth by embracing the strength and gender of the modern cleaning woman . ”
What ’s really special about the causa , though , is its fabric . implant at the molecular point are insecticides that repel malaria - fan out mosquitos . By binding repellant and fabric at the nanolevel , using metallic element organic theoretical account molecules ( MOFs)—clustered crystalline compounds — the framework is able to be loaded with up to three times the amount of insecticide found on conventional mosquito net , which are but dip in an insecticide solution , not molecularly bonded .
Across Africa , Malaria is responsible for about 655,000 deaths each year , despite being treatable and preventable . From opposite ends of the continent , Ceesay and Frederick Ochanda , a post - doctoral student in fiber science and clothes design with whom she collaborated on the project , each have dealt personally with the loss of a family phallus to malaria .
Ceesay and Ochanda are hopeful that the MOF applied science demo in the garment will exalt improvement in the manufacturing of mosquito net . A temperature- and tripping - sensitive MOF fabric , that free insecticide depending on the time of day — mosquito are known night owls — is currently in the whole shebang , suppose Ochanda .
[ RDMag – Image viaVinicius Tupinamba / Shutterstock ]
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