{"id":1086,"date":"2018-05-08T06:52:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.springtextile.com\/blogs\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2019-01-02T02:59:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T02:59:32","slug":"hot-new-fabric-could-help-you-stay-cool%ef%bc%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.springtextile.com\/blogs\/hot-new-fabric-could-help-you-stay-cool%ef%bc%81.html","title":{"rendered":"Hot? New fabric could help you stay cool\uff01"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making a fabric largely invisible to body heat<\/i><\/em><\/h4>\n

Because its energy is lower than that of visible light, heat is known as\u00a0infrared radiation.\u00a0When radiation (such as heat or light) reaches an object, it can bounce off or travel around it.<\/p>\n

When designing their new fabric<\/a>, Cui and his team started with a common plastic. It\u2019s known as polyethylene.<\/p>\n

But the new material\u2019s great advantage is its structure. Unlike the version of the plastic used in bottles and many bags, the new version includes tiny fused bubbles, or nanopores. Those bubbles \u2014 each around a billionth of a meter in diameter \u2014 are interconnected and let fluids (like air) flow from one side to another. Overall, when seen up close, the material looks like a very thin, very tiny version of a kitchen sponge.<\/p>\n

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How cool?<\/i><\/em><\/h4>\n

The team came up with a way to test how well heat (that infrared radiation) will pass through the new fabric. When wearing a cotton shirt, a man\u2019s skin temperature would climb about 3.5\u00b0 Celsius higher than if he wore no shirt at all. But in a shirt made from the team\u2019s new fabric, his skin would feel only 0.8 \u00b0C warmer than if he went shirtless.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a big temperature difference. Someone who feels cool doesn\u2019t need to set the thermostat for the air conditioning too low. And that would save money. For every 1 \u00b0C warmer the air-conditioning\u2019s thermostat is set, residents will use about 10 percent less household energy, studies have\u00a0shown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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