Tailoring Photonic-Engineered Textiles with Butterfly-Mimetic Tertiary Micro/Nano Architectures for Superior Passive Radiative Cooling

Hongyu Guo; Tianye Niu; Jianyong Yu; Xueli Wang; Yang Si

Engineering (Dec 2023)

Tailoring Photonic-Engineered Textiles with Butterfly-Mimetic Tertiary Micro/Nano Architectures for Superior Passive Radiative Cooling

Hongyu Guo,
Tianye Niu,
Jianyong Yu,
Xueli Wang,
Yang Si

Affiliations

Hongyu Guo: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
Tianye Niu: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
Jianyong Yu: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China; Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
Xueli Wang: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China; Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China; Corresponding authors.
Yang Si: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China; Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China; Corresponding authors.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 31
pp. 120 – 126

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People could potentially mitigate heat discomfort when outdoors by combining passive radiative cooling (PRC) strategies with personal thermal management techniques. However, most current PRC materials lack wearing comfort and durability. In this study, a microarray technique is applied to fabricate the tailoring photonic-engineered textiles with intriguing PRC capability and appealing wearability. The developed radiative cooling textiles (RCTs) demonstrate appropriate air–moisture permeability, structural stability, and extended spectroscopic response with high sunlight reflectivity (91.7%) and robust heat emissivity (95.8%) through the atmospheric transparent spectral window (ATSW). In a hot outdoor cooling test, a skin simulator covered by the RCTs displays a temperature drop of approximately 4.4 °C at noon compared with cotton textiles. The evolution of our mimetic structures may provide new insights into the generation of wearable, thermal–wet comfortable, and robust textiles for exploring PRC techniques in personal thermal management applications.

Published in Engineering

ISSN: 2095-8099 (Print); 2096-0026 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: China
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/engineering

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