Graphene T Shirt

If you’re looking to reverse engineer superhero gear, then graphene is your material. Invisible to the human eye and only a single atom thick, it’s the lightest, strongest, most conductive material ever discovered. So we’ve used the lightest material on the planet to create the lightest t shirt we’ve ever built.

Thanks to the graphene it’s also the fastest-cooling t shirt we’ve ever built. The human body loses more than half its heat by radiation – that's why elite marathon runners wrap themselves in reflective foil blankets at the end of races to keep warm. This t shirt has the exact opposite effect. Because graphene rapidly absorbs and redistributes heat, it creates a much larger surface area for heat loss – and this means you stay cooler for longer when you're working out at a high intensity.

Every Graphene T Shirt is knitted using polymer yarns. And we add the graphene to these yarns during the production process. First the polymer is melted, then it’s extruded – which basically means pushed through a nozzle. As the molten polymer goes through the extrusion process, we add powdered graphene oxide so the graphene is baked into the yarn. And because graphene can’t absorb dye, you can see it on the t shirt as a subtle tessellating pattern against the t shirt’s base colour.

The Graphene T Shirt is not our first time working with graphene. In 2018, we built the world’s first graphene jacket. We then spent 3 years working with the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester creating the world’s first Thermal Camouflage Jacket – a computer-programmable jacket designed to get us a little closer to an invisibility cloak. Our Graphene Jacket in 2023 brought us one step closer to a graphene skin. And in 2024 our Double Graphene Puffer combined a graphene shell with graphene insulation for the first time.

Even without graphene, this would still be one of the most advanced t shirts you’ve ever worn. At just 100 grams it’s incredibly light. It’s built with four-way stretch so will never restrict your movement in any direction. And it’s also highly breathable – so will wick moisture away from your skin and dry fast.

It’s the build up of the bacteria in sweat that makes your clothes smell, not the clothes themselves. But bacteria can’t grow on graphene – which makes the Graphene T Shirt perfect for your gym bag or every day life. As well as being bacteriostatic, graphene is also hypoallergenic and anti-static.

The side seams of the t shirt are designed to curve towards your back. It creates a more tapered shape, and stops the seams from rubbing against your sides when you’re training hardest. We’ve also used stretch stitching to reduce stress on the seams when you’re moving fast.

When graphite is reduced to a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagon formation, it turns into a supermaterial unlike anything ever known before – it’s so strong and so stretchy that the fibres of a big enough spider web coated in graphene could catch a falling plane. With the potential to transform almost every industry from space travel to electronics, graphene is so mind-blowing that its discovery was described as like finding CERN’s Large Hadron Collider on your desk.