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Catalytic Clothing debuts its kilts at Edinburgh International Science Festival

If it’s been your dream to catch a glimpse of hairy male legs in kilts designed (the kilts not the legs) to clean the air free of pollution, you can make it come true at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, March 30 – April 15, 2012.

Image via Flickr user zoonabar (downloaded from http://dvice.com/archives/2012/02/nanotechnology-1.php)

Eileen Marable’s Feb. 22, 2012 article on DVICE provides details,

The unlikely pairing of a chemist and a fashion designer has led to the creation of air-purifying textiles. The duo will debut a catalyzed denim kilt at the Edinburgh International Science Festival at the end of March.

And by debut, they mean wearing it.

I wrote about Catalytic Clothing, a collaboration between Professor Helen Storey at the London College of Fashion and Professor Tony Ryan, a scientist at the University of Sheffield, in my July 8, 2011 posting. The story was about a nanotechnology-enabled couture dress that Storey had designed from a textile treated by Tony Ryan to remove pollution from the air. Marable’s story provides more technical detail about how this is accomplished. The kilts, by the way, will be cleaning the pollutant, nitric oxide from the air.

The Edinburgh International Science Festival website can be found here. At least one event is already sold out.