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Experimental Methods for Investigation of Shape Memory Based Elastocaloric Cooling Processes and Model Validation
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Shuang Zhang1,2
1Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China. shuzhang@hku.hk.
Light, Science & Applications
|October 28, 2021
Abstract:
Engineering the spectral response of composite materials in a broad range from ultraviolet to infrared can lead to a significant passive cooling functionality. This principle is applied to the design of a novel type of metafabric for cooling the human body under direct sunlight. Besides cooling effect, the metafabric features other merits including superior mechanical and wetting properties.

