Author Affiliations
1State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China2Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, Chinashow less
【AIGC One Sentence Reading】:We developed a photonic metafabric with high sunlight reflectivity for passive radiative cooling, reducing body temperature by 7.17°C daytime.
【AIGC Short Abstract】:A metafabric with biomimetic triangular light track was developed for passive radiative cooling, featuring high sunlight reflectivity and total internal reflection. Outdoor tests showed a 7.17°C temperature drop, significantly reducing cooling demand. The metafabric is stable, permeable, wearable, and scalable, offering a zero-energy solution for human body cooling.
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Abstract
Integrating passive radiative cooling techniques with wearable fabrics provides a zero-energy strategy for preventing people from heat stress and reducing cooling demand. However, developing wearable passive radiative cooling fabrics with ideal optical characteristics, wearability, and scalability has consistently presented a challenge. Here, we developed a metafabric with high sunlight reflectivity (88.07%) according to the design of an individual photonic structure, which demonstrates total internal reflection with the tailored triangular light track. A skin simulator covered by metafabric exhibits a temperature drop of 7.17 °C in the daytime compared with regular polyester fabric in an outdoor cooling test. Consequently, it was theoretically proven to exert a substantial influence on achieving a significant cooling demand reduction of 52.69–185.79 W·m-2. These characteristics, coupled with structural stability, air-moisture permeability, sufficient wearability, and scalability, allowed the metafabric to provide a solution for introducing zero-energy passive radiative cooling technique into human body cooling.