A dual-mode textile for human body radiative heating and cooling.

ABSTRACT: Maintaining human body temperature is one of the most basic needs for living, which often consumes a huge amount of energy to keep the ambient temperature constant. To expand the ambient temperature range while maintaining human thermal comfort, the concept of personal thermal management has been recently demonstrated in heating and cooling textiles separately through human body infrared radiation control. Realizing these two opposite functions within the same textile would represent an exciting scientific challenge and a significant technological advancement. We demonstrate a dual-mode textile that can perform both passive radiative heating and cooling using the same piece of textile without any energy input. The dual-mode textile is composed of a bilayer emitter embedded inside an infrar

SUBMITTER: Hsu PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5688747 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature