• Advanced Fiber Materials
  • Vol. 7, Issue 1, 00467 (2025)
Hongyu Guo1, Bomou Ma1,2, Jianyong Yu1,2, Xueli Wang1,2,*, and Yang Si1,2,**
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
  • 2Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s42765-024-00467-9 Cite this Article
    Hongyu Guo, Bomou Ma, Jianyong Yu, Xueli Wang, Yang Si. Photonic Metafabric with Biomimetic Triangular Light Track for Passive Radiative Cooling[J]. Advanced Fiber Materials, 2025, 7(1): 00467 Copy Citation Text show less

    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.
    Hongyu Guo, Bomou Ma, Jianyong Yu, Xueli Wang, Yang Si. Photonic Metafabric with Biomimetic Triangular Light Track for Passive Radiative Cooling[J]. Advanced Fiber Materials, 2025, 7(1): 00467
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