{"id":157195,"date":"2023-02-07T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-develop-first-fabric-to-automatically-cool-or-insulate-depending-on-conditions"},"modified":"2023-02-07T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:22:51","slug":"scientists-develop-first-fabric-to-automatically-cool-or-insulate-depending-on-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-develop-first-fabric-to-automatically-cool-or-insulate-depending-on-conditions","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop first fabric to automatically cool or insulate depending on conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-first-fabric-to-automatically-cool-or-insulate-depending-on-conditions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite decades of innovation in fabrics with high-tech thermal properties that keep marathon runners cool or alpine hikers warm, there has never been a material that changes its insulating properties in response to the environment. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>University of Maryland researchers have created a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fabric\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fabric<\/a> that can automatically regulate the amount of heat that passes through it. When conditions are warm and moist, such as those near a sweating body, the fabric allows <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infrared+radiation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrared radiation<\/a> (heat) to pass through. When conditions become cooler and drier, the fabric reduces the heat that escapes. The development was reported in the February 8, 2019 issue of the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers created the fabric from specially engineered yarn coated with a conductive metal. Under hot, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/humid+conditions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">humid conditions<\/a>, the strands of yarn compact and activate the coating, which changes the way the fabric interacts with infrared <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radiation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radiation<\/a>. They refer to the action as \u201cgating\u201d of infrared radiation, which acts as a tunable blind to transmit or block heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite decades of innovation in fabrics with high-tech thermal properties that keep marathon runners cool or alpine hikers warm, there has never been a material that changes its insulating properties in response to the environment. Until now. University of Maryland researchers have created a fabric that can automatically regulate the amount of heat that passes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157195","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}