A Scalable Hybrid Fiber and Its Textile with Pore and Wrinkle Structures for Passive Personal Cooling

A radiative cooling garment is proposed as a promising strategy for ordinary people to attain high thermal comfort indoors and outdoors. However, low production and poor cooling capability restrict its wide applications. Herein, a high-performance fiber and its textile with pore and wrinkle structures are fabricated that consist of polyethylene (PE) and polyethylene oxide. This specific structure endows the fiber and textile with high IR absorbance/emissivity (90.97%) and sunlight reflectance (93.77%). Therefore, the hybrid porous PE fiber and textile show good cooling capabilities and avoid the human body overheating by 6.8 degrees C under direct solar irradiation. The inner temperature of the transparent house with a roof covered by the textile decreases by 20.3 and 12.5 degrees C compared to the states of no extra cover and cotton cover, respectively. Apart from that, the results of the simulating and real human body measurements demonstrate that the porous PE textile enables the human body to acquire the same thermal comfort as the bare state. More importantly, the porous PE fiber and textile are superlight, flexible, moisture-permeable, and waterproof, and meanwhile, have excellent tensile strength and UV protection properties. The good comprehensive performance indicates that the textile is appealing for fabricating summer clothes.