{"id":130387,"date":"2021-11-11T01:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T09:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/silk-modified-to-reflect-sunlight-keeps-skin-12-5c-cooler-than-cotton"},"modified":"2021-11-11T01:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T09:22:52","slug":"silk-modified-to-reflect-sunlight-keeps-skin-12-5c-cooler-than-cotton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/silk-modified-to-reflect-sunlight-keeps-skin-12-5c-cooler-than-cotton","title":{"rendered":"Silk modified to reflect sunlight keeps skin 12.5\u00b0C cooler than cotton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silk-modified-to-reflect-sunlight-keeps-skin-12-5c-cooler-than-cotton2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the researchers bathed this engineered silk in sunlight, they found that it stayed 3.5\u00b0C cooler than the surrounding air because of its ability to reflect most sunlight and radiate heat. It is the first fabric to be developed that stays colder than the surrounding air when in sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also found that when they draped the engineered silk over a surface designed to simulate skin, it kept the skin 8\u00b0C cooler under direct sunlight than natural silk did \u2013 and it kept the skin 12.5\u00b0C cooler than cotton did. The simulated skin was made of silicone rubber that was wrapped around a heater to mimic body warmth.<\/p>\n<p>In the final part of their experiments, they made a collared long-sleeved shirt from the engineered silk and asked a volunteer to wear it while standing out in the sun on a 37\u00b0C day. Infrared images revealed that the shirt stayed cool. Similar infrared images captured of the volunteer wearing shirts made of natural silk or cotton showed that these fabrics warmed up. \u201cWearing the engineered silk on a hot day under sunlight, one feels much cooler than wearing normal textiles such as cotton,\u201d says Zhu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the researchers bathed this engineered silk in sunlight, they found that it stayed 3.5\u00b0C cooler than the surrounding air because of its ability to reflect most sunlight and radiate heat. It is the first fabric to be developed that stays colder than the surrounding air when in sunlight. The researchers also found that when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130387","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}