Flexible, portable and heatable non-woven fabric with directional moisture transport functions and ultra-fast evaporation.

ABSTRACT: Compared with previous textiles possessing a hierarchical roughness structure for accelerating moisture evaporation, the use of Joule-heating to prepare heatable textiles is a more novel and useful way to achieve ultra-fast evaporation. Herein, we report an assembly strategy to create a functional non-woven (NW) fabric for directional moisture transportation and ultra-fast evaporation, ameliorating previous shortcomings. The resulting functional NW fabric reaches a sheet resistance of 1.116 Ω □^-1, and the increased surface temperature (76.1 °C) induced by a low voltage (5 V) further results in an excellent ultra-fast evaporation rate (3.42 g h^-1). Also, the moisture is transported to the outer surface of the designed fabric and spreads onto this surface. This desirabl

SUBMITTER: Xu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9055594 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature