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Title: Warming up human body by nanoporous metallized polyethylene textile

Abstract

Space heating accounts for the largest energy end-use of buildings that imposes significant burden on the society. The energy wasted for heating the empty space of the entire building can be saved by passively heating the immediate environment around the human body. Here, we demonstrate a nanophotonic structure textile with tailored infrared (IR) property for passive personal heating using nanoporous metallized polyethylene. By constructing an IR-reflective layer on an IR-transparent layer with embedded nanopores, the nanoporous metallized polyethylene textile achieves a minimal IR emissivity (10.1%) on the outer surface that effectively suppresses heat radiation loss without sacrificing wearing comfort. This enables 7.1 °C decrease of the set-point compared to normal textile, greatly outperforming other radiative heating textiles by more than 3 °C. This large set-point expansion can save more than 35% of building heating energy in a cost-effective way, and ultimately contribute to the relief of global energy and climate issues.

Authors:
 [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
  2. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Ginzton Lab.
  3. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
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Research Org.:
Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
OSTI Identifier:
1624047
Grant/Contract Number:  
AR0000533
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Science & Technology - Other Topics

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Cai, Lili, Song, Alex Y., Wu, Peilin, Hsu, Po-Chun, Peng, Yucan, Chen, Jun, Liu, Chong, Catrysse, Peter B., Liu, Yayuan, Yang, Ankun, Zhou, Chenxing, Zhou, Chenyu, Fan, Shanhui, and Cui, Yi. Warming up human body by nanoporous metallized polyethylene textile. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00614-4.
Cai, Lili, Song, Alex Y., Wu, Peilin, Hsu, Po-Chun, Peng, Yucan, Chen, Jun, Liu, Chong, Catrysse, Peter B., Liu, Yayuan, Yang, Ankun, Zhou, Chenxing, Zhou, Chenyu, Fan, Shanhui, & Cui, Yi. Warming up human body by nanoporous metallized polyethylene textile. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00614-4
Cai, Lili, Song, Alex Y., Wu, Peilin, Hsu, Po-Chun, Peng, Yucan, Chen, Jun, Liu, Chong, Catrysse, Peter B., Liu, Yayuan, Yang, Ankun, Zhou, Chenxing, Zhou, Chenyu, Fan, Shanhui, and Cui, Yi. Tue . "Warming up human body by nanoporous metallized polyethylene textile". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00614-4. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1624047.
@article{osti_1624047,
title = {Warming up human body by nanoporous metallized polyethylene textile},
author = {Cai, Lili and Song, Alex Y. and Wu, Peilin and Hsu, Po-Chun and Peng, Yucan and Chen, Jun and Liu, Chong and Catrysse, Peter B. and Liu, Yayuan and Yang, Ankun and Zhou, Chenxing and Zhou, Chenyu and Fan, Shanhui and Cui, Yi},
abstractNote = {Space heating accounts for the largest energy end-use of buildings that imposes significant burden on the society. The energy wasted for heating the empty space of the entire building can be saved by passively heating the immediate environment around the human body. Here, we demonstrate a nanophotonic structure textile with tailored infrared (IR) property for passive personal heating using nanoporous metallized polyethylene. By constructing an IR-reflective layer on an IR-transparent layer with embedded nanopores, the nanoporous metallized polyethylene textile achieves a minimal IR emissivity (10.1%) on the outer surface that effectively suppresses heat radiation loss without sacrificing wearing comfort. This enables 7.1 °C decrease of the set-point compared to normal textile, greatly outperforming other radiative heating textiles by more than 3 °C. This large set-point expansion can save more than 35% of building heating energy in a cost-effective way, and ultimately contribute to the relief of global energy and climate issues.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-00614-4},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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