Smart Fabric Detects and Collects Space Dust

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  • TBMG-38509
Published February 01, 2021 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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Researchers have developed an acoustic fabric so sensitive to vibrations that it can detect impacts from microscopic high-velocity space particles. A terrestrial application of these fabrics could be for blast detection and in the future, to act as sensitive microphones for directional gunshot detection.