Omni-Cool-Dry™: a Desert Beetle Inspired Skin-like Fabric for Dynamic Thermal and Moisture Management
Overview
Beyond existing fabrics, Omni-Cool-Dry™ promises all-day cool, dry, breathable, and comfortable feelings even under the sun. It adopts the desert beetle inspired innovation, quickly dissipating liquid sweat as water droplets to avoid sensation of wetness and saturation, and selectively reflecting solar radiation and emitting body heat to the cold universe for cooling.
Commercialisation opportunities
Collaboration for product development, Product distribution
Problem addressed
Humans sweat to cool down and dissipate heat. However, when your body produces excessive sweat, your clothing will be soaked and clammy, reducing your comfort and performance significantly and consuming extra energy for thermal and sweat management.
Innovation
- Directional and fast sweat dissipation like human skin
- Selectively tunable radiative cooling
Key impact
- Beyond exiting fabrics, 3 times faster in sweat dissipation, 75% less in weight, and 50% less in clinging force during heavy perspiration
- 5°C lower in skin temperature under the sun
- Scalable manufacture
- Provide personalized functional apparels with high comfort, performance, and wellbeing for a variety of consumer communities, and bring novel products of superior thermal and moisture management in textile and clothing industry
Award
- TechConnect 2021 Global Innovation Award
- Silver Medal at the Special Edition 2022 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days - Virtual Event
Application
- Apparels for a variety of citizens
- Apparels for various professionals, including medical personnel, athletes, outdoor enthusiasts, construction workers, firefighters, hyperhidrosis patients, and soldiers
Patent
- PCT Patent Application No. PCT/CN2021/098554
- Chinese Patent Application No. 202110634254.9
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