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Heat transfer in directional water transport fabrics

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posted on 2024-06-04, 00:13 authored by C Zeng, H Wang, H Zhou, T Lin
Directional water transport fabrics can proactively transfer moisture from the body. They show great potential in making sportswear and summer clothing. While moisture transfer has been previously reported, heat transfer in directional water transport fabrics has been little reported in research literature. In this study, a directional water transport fabric was prepared using an electrospraying technique and its heat transfer properties under dry and wet states were evaluated, and compared with untreated control fabric and the one pre-treated with NaOH. All the fabric samples showed similar heat transfer features in the dry state, and the equilibrium temperature in the dry state was higher than for the wet state. Wetting considerably enhanced the thermal conductivity of the fabrics. Our studies indicate that directional water transport treatment assists in moving water toward one side of the fabric, but has little effect on thermal transfer performance. This study may be useful for development of “smart” textiles for various applications.

History

Journal

Fibers

Volume

4

Season

Special issue: smart textiles

Article number

ARTN 26

Location

Basel, Switzerland

Open access

  • Yes

eISSN

2079-6439

Language

English

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2016, the authors

Issue

4

Publisher

MDPI