{"id":105554,"date":"2020-04-17T06:02:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/phase-change-fabric-both-warms-and-cools-its-wearer"},"modified":"2020-04-17T06:02:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:02:25","slug":"phase-change-fabric-both-warms-and-cools-its-wearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/phase-change-fabric-both-warms-and-cools-its-wearer","title":{"rendered":"Phase-change fabric both warms and cools its wearer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/phase-change-fabric-both-warms-and-cools-its-wearer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The more clothing that you wear, the warmer you are \u2026 right? Well actually, scientists have developed a new textile that both warms wearers in cold environments, <i>and<\/i> cools them down when things heat up.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental material was developed at China\u2019s Huazhong University of Science and Technology, by a team led by Prof. Guangming Tao. It\u2019s made by first freeze-spinning silk and chitosan, forming fibers with a porous microstructure \u2013 chitosan, incidentally, is a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/banana-spoilage-coating\/23845\/\">highly useful<\/a> natural compound found in crustacean shells.<\/p>\n<p>Next, the pores within the fibers are filled with polyethylene glycol (PEG), which is a phase-change material that takes the form of a liquid when warm, and a solid when cool. Finally, the fibers are coated with an organic polymer known as polydimethylsiloxane, to keep the PEG from leaking out while in its liquid state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more clothing that you wear, the warmer you are \u2026 right? Well actually, scientists have developed a new textile that both warms wearers in cold environments, and cools them down when things heat up. The experimental material was developed at China\u2019s Huazhong University of Science and Technology, by a team led by Prof. Guangming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}