Smart bra spins off from self-powering fabric research

A "smart bra" made of a memory-fabric that snaps back when the stress on it passes some threshhold increases lift when warranted. It's a spinoff of battlefield new-materials research that will allow soldiers to provide their own power by means of capturing ambient kinetic energy and converting it to electricity.

Professor Wallace's institute uses materials known as conducting polymers that are as flexible as plastic but have been "doped" with chemicals that change their atomic structure so that they conduct electricity.

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