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An Adaptive Textile Keeps Cool by Self-Regulating its Thermal Properties (2 of 3)

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An Adaptive Textile Keeps Cool by Self-Regulating its Thermal Properties (2 of 3)

image: University of Maryland Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor YuHuang Wang (left) and Physics Professor Min Ouyang hold a swatch of their new fabric that can automatically adjust its insulating properties to warm or cool a human body. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 8, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Xu Zhang at University of Maryland in College Park, MD, and colleagues was titled, "Dynamic gating of infrared radiation in a textile." view more 

Credit: Faye Levine, University of Maryland


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