Scientists have developed a cooling skin fabric

The fabric of the future was created at Stanford University. Photo: Stanford University / Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News Service

Stanford University engineers have developed a fabric that can help people adapt to rising global temperatures. The new material not only promotes the evaporation of moisture from the skin surface, but also cools the skin.

According to researchers' findings in the journal Science, inexpensive fabric based on nanoporous polyethylene can be used as an integral part of clothing and at the same time it is more effective to cool the body than the natural or synthetic fibers that are widespread today.

“Cooling people, not the buildings in which they work or live, you save energy,” says leading project expert Yi Cui, professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University.

The new material allows a person to feel as if the air temperature is about 2 degrees Celsius lower than if he was wearing cotton clothes. Like natural fabric, it allows moisture to evaporate. At the same time, the new material does not interfere with the heat transfer of the body and transmits heat (in the form of infrared radiation).

As a result, a person in such clothes does not need to turn on a fan or air conditioner.

Will it all be worn?

Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Shanghai Fu, specializes in photonics - the study of visible and invisible light. According to him, about half of the heat of our body is dissipated in the form of infrared radiation, and although these issues are not fully understood, designers of textile products should take this into account.

“Any clothing picks up some heat and warms the skin,” Fan explains. “If our only problem was the dispersion of thermal radiation, we could do without clothes at all.” But there are generally accepted rules of etiquette, so creating a fabric that allows you to feel cool at elevated temperatures is, by his assessment, a real breakthrough.

Stanford scientists are planning to work on expanding the range of fabric invented by them, make it multi-colored, convenient for sewing clothes from it, and also facilitate its mass production.

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