{"id":29609,"date":"2016-09-01T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/engineers-give-new-meaning-to-the-phrase-cool-clothes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:18:51","slug":"engineers-give-new-meaning-to-the-phrase-cool-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/engineers-give-new-meaning-to-the-phrase-cool-clothes","title":{"rendered":"Engineers give new meaning to the phrase \u2018cool clothes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-give-new-meaning-to-the-phrase-cool-clothes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cannot wait for this material so that I can finally enjoy my run in the park near my US home in August.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Engineers have created clothing for a warming world \u2014 a fabric that allows your body heat to escape far better than other materials do.<\/p>\n<p>It hasn\u2019t been worn or tested by humans, so outside experts caution this is far from a sure thing, but a team at Stanford University engineered a fabric using nano technology that not only allows moisture to leave the body better, but helps infrared radiation escape better. As a result, they say in Thursday\u2019s journal Science, the body should feel around 4.8 degrees (2.7 degrees Celsius) cooler than cotton and 3.8 degrees (2.1 degrees Celsius) chillier than commercially available synthetics.<\/p>\n<p>This is designed for a warmer world \u2014 not just because climate change is making temperatures hotter, but because it takes a lot of energy to heat and cool people\u2019s offices and homes, said study lead author Yi Cui, a professor of materials and engineering.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/Technology\/2016\/09\/01\/Engineers-give-new-meaning-to-the-phrase-cool-clothes-They-have-created-cooling-clothing-designed-for-warming-world.html\">http:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/Technology\/2016\/09\/01\/Engineers-g...world.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannot wait for this material so that I can finally enjoy my run in the park near my US home in August. WASHINGTON \u2014 Engineers have created clothing for a warming world \u2014 a fabric that allows your body heat to escape far better than other materials do. It hasn\u2019t been worn or tested by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1497,38,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-energy","category-engineering","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29609","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66361,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29609\/revisions\/66361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}