The team designed the fabric by weaving a grid of electrodes into a cloth attached to a layer of cotton fabric.

The single-layered cotton fabric, they say, captures moisture and transports it across the shirt's inner surface, speeding up the drying process.

The researchers used a basic screen printing technique to print a flexible supercapacitor of graphene-oxide ink onto cotton fabric.

The material's cooling potential was tested against a cotton fabric of a similar thickness.

The locals produce the silk, the wool and the cotton fabric themselves.