No more additional sensors or circuits need to-be added over garments to add any electronic circuit capabilities to garments, as researchers from U.S, Italy, and France have invented transistors made from cotton fibers. According to Annalisa Bonfiglio, an EE professor at the University of Cagliari, in Italy, whose student Giorgio Mattana worked on the electronic cotton, the process of creating the electronic cotton isn't complicated at all and it is more or less like dying the material.

Giorgia Mattana and the team conducted the research under Prof. Juan P Hinestroza, Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y. Hinestroza, who has received over 5.2 MM USD in research funding for his pioneering work in exploring new tracts for creating multifunctional fibers through manipulation of nano scale phenomena, was very fascinated about this project. "We want to create a seamless interface between electronics and textiles," says Hinestroza.

In common, the cellulose which makes up the cotton were insulators, so to turn them into a conductive fiber, the team coated each strand with gold nanoparticles. Then the team added a thin layer of PEDOT, a conductive polymer which is optically transparent in its conducting state, over gold coated fiber. Now, the team was done with creating a conducting cotton fiber. Also, according to the team this conducting cotton has hundred times more conductivity than plain cotton, with almost no change with their mechanical property.