{"id":88264,"date":"2019-02-28T23:44:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/u-md-researchers-develop-smart-fabric-that-automatically-warms-or-cools-you-off"},"modified":"2019-02-28T23:44:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T07:44:09","slug":"u-md-researchers-develop-smart-fabric-that-automatically-warms-or-cools-you-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/u-md-researchers-develop-smart-fabric-that-automatically-warms-or-cools-you-off","title":{"rendered":"U-Md. researchers develop smart fabric that automatically warms or cools you off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-md-researchers-develop-smart-fabric-that-automatically-warms-or-cools-you-off2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re sweating on a hot summer day, for example, the fabric allows heat to escape. But when the outside temperature is cooler and the air drier, and your body gets cooler, the fabric becomes more compact, retaining heat from the wearer\u2019s body, researchers say. The researcher\u2019s paper, \u201cDynamic gating of infrared radiation in a textile,\u201d was published in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you work in a large office building, there\u2019s a decent chance you tailor your attire to two separate weather forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s the outdoor weather, an evolving state of dynamic atmospheric conditions dictated by seasonal patterns. Then there\u2019s the indoor weather, an evolving state of arbitrary conditions dictated by an all-powerful being known as the building manager, an individual whose atmospheric whims unleash equal amounts of cursing and praise.<\/p>\n<p>While you luxuriate in a cold blast of air conditioning on a hot summer day, your co-worker bundles under a fleece blanket, shivering and miserable.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/02\/13\/u-md-researchers-develop-smart-fabric-that-automatically-warms-or-cools-you-off\/?noredirect=on\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/02\/13\/u-md-re...edirect=on<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re sweating on a hot summer day, for example, the fabric allows heat to escape. But when the outside temperature is cooler and the air drier, and your body gets cooler, the fabric becomes more compact, retaining heat from the wearer\u2019s body, researchers say. The researcher\u2019s paper, \u201cDynamic gating of infrared radiation in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88264","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}