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"One day our cotton t-Shirts could have more functions;For example, a flexible energy storage device that could charge your cell phone or your ipad,"He said.

Starting with a t-Shirt from a local discount store, li's team soaked it in a solution of fluoride, dried it and baked it at high temperature.They excluded oxygen in the oven to prevent the material from charring or simply combusting.

The surfaces of the resulting fibres in the fabric were shown by infrared spectroscopy to have been converted from cellulose to activated carbon.Yet the material retained flexibility and could be folded without breaking.

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