Larger cloth fibers will brush right over these smaller particles because they simply can’t pick them up. Ever drop your keys between the seats in your car and need to enlist some tiny kid-sized hands to retrieve them? It’s the same principle, almost.
Microfibers can get into those small spaces and grab the small dust and dirt particles that other standard cotton or polyester cloths leave behind. Use the Force The dust particles are attracted to the fibers by forces of attraction called van der Waals forces, named after their discoverer Johannes Diderik van der Waals, a Nobel-prize winning Dutch chemist.