Researchers who were probably day dreaming about Huntington Beach the week of the Vans U.S. Open of Surfing, invented a swimsuit material that cleans the ocean. Photo: UC Riverside
As if you needed another reason to love bikinis, now they can clean ocean water while they do all the other wonderful things bikinis do. Researchers who were probably day dreaming about Huntington Beach the week of the Vans U.S. Open of Surfing invented a swimsuit material that does just that.
The operative material is called Sponge, a porous substance made from sucrose that’s capable of absorbing 25-times its weight in contaminants. It was invented by UC Riverside scientists to clean oil spills, but why not 3-D print a bikini-shaped netting to hold Sponge in place on womens’ naughty bits?
