Fabric has the ability to pronounce

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a fabric that detects sounds and makes noise.

Artwork: designvogue.com.

AFP reported that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) started a fiber-optic fabric research project about a decade ago. The purpose of the project is to create fabrics with the most complex properties ever, allowing fabrics to interact with their surroundings.

In fact, the new yarn has many of the same characteristics that the plastic used in the microphone. However, the researchers changed the fluorine content in the plastic to ensure that the molecules arranged asymmetrically. The asymmetry of molecules causes the plastic to have piezoelectricity - that is, when it enters an electric field, it changes its shape and vice versa. When mechanical force is applied to it, it generates an electric current. .

The fibers that MIT produces are not only capable of receiving and transmitting sound, but also producing sound.

'When you connect them to the power source and to a weak current, they vibrate and emit noise. If they oscillate at the frequencies that human ear can hear, you will hear many tunes from them, '' said Noemie Chocat, a member of the team.

Applications involving fabric fibers that detect sound may include an ultra-sensitive microphone capable of recording speech or monitoring of body functions, or fibers that can measure the blood flow in the circuit and pressure. The power in the brain.

"We can even use fiber-optic audio to fabricate ocean currents or oceans of ultra-high resolution magnetic resonance imaging," MIT said.