New solar-powered fabric is straight out of Back to the Future
Innovation November 14, 2016
POWER SUIT: A nanotechnology scientist at the University of Central Florida has developed solar-powered filaments that store energy and can be woven into textiles, which act as wearable solar-powered batteries that could charge our devices.
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