Miracle fabric helps people wear to adapt to global warming

Scientists have successfully built a fabric that helps people resist harshness as global temperatures rapidly increase. When sewing into clothing, they will help your body get better heat than conventional fabrics.

The author of this research is the engineers from Stanford University. They have created a fabric using nanotechnology that not only allows the body to escape heat and moisture better but also helps infrared radiation escape easily. The results showed that people wearing this fabric would feel 2.7 degrees cooler than wearing cotton clothes and 2.1 degrees cooler than wearing synthetic fiber clothes.

"Clothing made from super cool fabrics not only helps people adapt to the increasing temperature environment over time but also helps save energy for cooling activities of people", according to Researcher Yi Cui, a professor of materials and engineering, co-authored the study.

Miracle fabric helps to escape heat, moisture and infrared radiation. (Image source: Harvard University).

"The ultimate goal we are aiming at is the ability to adjust people's body temperature to suit individual preferences ," Cui said. This fabric has been improved to evaporate moisture and escape heat to the maximum extent. "The remaining problem is eliminating all the infrared radiation from the body," Cui said.

The construction of a heat-retaining material is quite easy, but it is difficult to make a material that can escape heat. Some plastics such as polyethylene can allow infrared radiation to escape the body very well. The problem lies in its transparency. This means you can see through clothes made of polyethylene and see all the inside.

Therefore, the team of engineers conducted a study to change the size of the gap of the material , while adding other chemicals to lose its transparency, allowing the heat and moisture to escape. Besides, the cost of this material is much cheaper than cotton. But when manufacturing, the material is so flat that scientists have to create fabric parts on their surface so that they look like regular fabrics. According to Mr. Cui, when touching, you will feel it very soft.

The structure of the holes is very small in polyethylene.(Photo: Yi Cui).

Medical ethical barriers do not allow this fabric to be tested extensively on humans on a large scale. So scientists estimate it will take another 3 years for super cool fabrics to be put into mass production. People can buy and wear it.

"There are many factors related to the skin's compatibility and feel for this fabric that still need to be investigated. Including laundry properties, durability, compatibility with dyes and If they cause skin allergies, the idea of ​​replacing fabrics like cotton used by humans for more than 8,000 years is quite daring and it takes a long time for this idea to materialize. Yogendra Joshi, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said.

Although still not used in practice, this super cool fabric promises a huge consumer market.