TY - JOUR
T1 - Wearable Tailored Passive Radiative Cooling Textile for Flexible Electronic Integration
AU - Chow, Lung
AU - Zhang, Jianpeng
AU - Peng, Zehua
AU - Ye, Denglin
AU - Zhang, Binbin
AU - Li, Jian
AU - Park, Wooyoung
AU - Du, Chentao
AU - Huang, Xingcan
AU - Yiu, Chun Ki
AU - Qiu, Yuze
AU - Zhou, Jingkun
AU - Chen, Zhenlin
AU - Gao, Yuyu
AU - Zhu, Weibin
AU - Wu, Pengcheng
AU - Zhao, Guangyao
AU - Zhang, Qiang
AU - Guo, Yuan
AU - Sun, Zuowei
AU - Shen, Zhan
AU - Ren, Shuaiqi
AU - Won, Sang Min
AU - Li, Jiyu
AU - Yu, Xinge
PY - 2026/3/18
Y1 - 2026/3/18
N2 - Textiles are ideal platforms for wearable electronics due to their inherent softness and superior thermophysiological comfort. However, conventional textiles prioritize wearer comfort at the cost of the stringent thermal-optical demands imposed by embedded electronics, often sacrificing scalability, breathability, electronic integrability, device performance, and user safety. Here, we report a wearable tailored passive radiative cooling textile (WRCT) for seamless integration of flexible electronics. The WRCT was fabricated via a scalable, one-step, and additive-free wet-spinning technique. Hierarchical phase inversion kinetics create microfibers with multiscale porosity and surface nodules, achieving solar reflectance (>95%) and mid-infrared emissivity (0.96). This single-material platform satisfies the conflicting requirements of wearing comfort and electronic functionality by providing breathability, flexibility, and passive daytime thermal management. These properties thermally decouple electronics from the skin and keep skin temperature below 41°C even under intense sunlight (500 W/m2) combined with a localized heat load equivalent to a heat flux of approximately 17 kW/m2 over a 142 mm2 area, simulating high-power microcontrollers, conditions that cause low-temperature burns within minutes on conventional textiles. By converting a commodity polymer into an advanced thermal-optical regulator through a mature and scalable fiber-production process, this textile establishes a practical, safe, and manufacturable foundation for reliable, all-day wearable electronic systems. © 2026 The Author(s). Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
AB - Textiles are ideal platforms for wearable electronics due to their inherent softness and superior thermophysiological comfort. However, conventional textiles prioritize wearer comfort at the cost of the stringent thermal-optical demands imposed by embedded electronics, often sacrificing scalability, breathability, electronic integrability, device performance, and user safety. Here, we report a wearable tailored passive radiative cooling textile (WRCT) for seamless integration of flexible electronics. The WRCT was fabricated via a scalable, one-step, and additive-free wet-spinning technique. Hierarchical phase inversion kinetics create microfibers with multiscale porosity and surface nodules, achieving solar reflectance (>95%) and mid-infrared emissivity (0.96). This single-material platform satisfies the conflicting requirements of wearing comfort and electronic functionality by providing breathability, flexibility, and passive daytime thermal management. These properties thermally decouple electronics from the skin and keep skin temperature below 41°C even under intense sunlight (500 W/m2) combined with a localized heat load equivalent to a heat flux of approximately 17 kW/m2 over a 142 mm2 area, simulating high-power microcontrollers, conditions that cause low-temperature burns within minutes on conventional textiles. By converting a commodity polymer into an advanced thermal-optical regulator through a mature and scalable fiber-production process, this textile establishes a practical, safe, and manufacturable foundation for reliable, all-day wearable electronic systems. © 2026 The Author(s). Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
KW - radiative cooling
KW - textile electronics
KW - thermal-optical regulation
KW - wearable electronics
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105033099671
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/pubmetrics.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105033099671&origin=recordpage
U2 - 10.1002/advs.202524380
DO - 10.1002/advs.202524380
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 2198-3844
JO - Advanced Science
JF - Advanced Science
M1 - e24380
ER -