An Integrated Cooling (i-Cool) Textile of Heat Conduction and Sweat Transportation for Personal Perspiration Management

Stanford researchers have created an integrated cooling textile (called i-Cool) with an unique functional design for personal perspiration management (PPM). The novel structural design of i-Cool textiles incorporates lab-proven functionality for PPM: fast water wicking, rapid evaporation, superior cooling effect and suppressed human body dehydration, most of which current textiles do not achieve. An artificial sweating skin platform with feedback control loop simulating human body perspiration situation was realized, on which the i-Cool (Cu) textile shows apparent cooling effect and much less water loss compared to the conventional textiles. Also, the structure advantage maintains under various exercise and ambient environments. The practical application of the i-Cool design principles has also been demonstrated, exhibiting good performance and wearability. This i-Cool textile has the potential to revolutionize next generation textiles for PPM in the near future.

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