Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Integrated cooling (i-Cool) textile of heat conduction and sweat transportation for personal perspiration management

  • Yucan Peng,
  • Wei Li,
  • Bofei Liu,
  • Weiliang Jin,
  • Joseph Schaadt,
  • Jing Tang,
  • Guangmin Zhou,
  • Guanyang Wang,
  • Jiawei Zhou,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Yangying Zhu,
  • Wenxiao Huang,
  • Tong Wu,
  • Kenneth E. Goodson,
  • Chris Dames,
  • Ravi Prasher,
  • Shanhui Fan,
  • Yi Cui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26384-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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To efficiently unlock the cooling power of sweat for human body remains a great challenge for next-generation textiles. Here the authors report an integrated cooling (i-Cool) textile showing high evaporation ability and sweat evaporation cooling efficiency for personal perspiration management.