Smart looks, smart phones, smart notebooks, and now a smart fabric, which can be worn for seven days without odour and cleans organic stains when in the Sun.

The smartness doesn’t end there. A shirt made of the smart fabric also saves the use of a sunscreen product as it protects from Ultra-Violet rays. Ubifab Innovations — which is working on this smart fabric — is the brainchild of Yatee Gupta, an IIT-Delhi alumnus.

‘Lack of innovation’

Ubifab Innovations has collaborated with the Bio-tech Department of IIT-Delhi to come out with a smart fabric for apparels and hospitals.

For both, it has raised about ₹64 lakh till now (₹50 lakh from Pfizer and ₹14 lakh from the Design Translational Grant and Design Innovation Fellowship of the government and IIT-Delhi).

“There are two reasons that I entered the segment: Firstly, as compared to other sectors, not much innovation is happening in the textile industry. Secondly, as it is one of the highest employment sectors I wanted to do something that can have a huge impact,” said Gupta.

The product is likely to be out by December. The aim is to conserve water, detergent and electricity, he said.

Ubifab Innovations will provide the technology to textile manufacturers and clothing brands for the production of these shirts, to be sold at their respective stores.

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