![]() Temperature control author: Lauren Gaynor Are there ever days where you don’t know what to wear because when you go outside it’s so cold, so you decide to wrap up well and then you have so many layers on that once you go inside your way to warm? When we are to warm or to cold our bodies do a variety of things to get us back to the correct temperature that we should be for example when we are to warm our bodies begin to sweat to release water that has heated up inside us, then when we are to cold the small hairs all around are body stand up to keep in warm air. Well now thanks to the world of smart textiles there is now clothes that can control your temperature with out you having to put on and take of clothes and to not have to put up with feeling uncomfortable. You might wonder how clothes would be able to do this? well engineers in in the university of California are working on a fabric that becomes thinner or thicker base on the temperature around you. The cloth is designed to keep you at a constant temperature of 33°celsius as this is on average the ideal temperature for people, it does this by shrinking when it is hot and expanding when it is cold. When designing these clothes, the engineers at the university of California paid particular attention to certain areas of that body that get warmer than everywhere else for example the souls of your feet and your back. What are the benefits of these fabrics? There are a lot of benefits when it comes to these smart fabrics one of the main ones being that it will reduce the amount of energy needed to heat and cool your rooms, Joseph Wang the project leader in the university of California said that “Not only does this smart cloth keep people cool, it could cut down on the energy needed to heat and cool buildings by at least 15 percent” (Joseph Wang,2015) Another huge benefit of these smart clothes is in the area of winter sports such as skiing, sledding and ice skating, for so long people have been wearing big huge ski jackets and trousers that can affect their comfort to move around now all they need is to put one of these smart cloth tops on and then just throw on what they want over. References: Joseph Wang, 17/07/2015, smart fabric keeps people heated & cooled (online) access: https://www.pddnet.com/news/2015/07/smart-fabric-keeps-people-heated-cooled Warbles for climate control,05/08/2016 (online) access: https://news.stanford.edu/2017/11/10/double-duty-textile-warm-cool/ Performance apparels markets, (online) access: https://www.textilesintelligence.com/tispam/index.cfm?pageid=3&repid=TISPAM&issueid=21&artid=1324 image https://news.stanford.edu/2017/11/10/double-duty-textile-warm-cool/
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