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Humidity-sensitive textiles offer advanced personal thermal management by regulating skin microenvironment and energy use. This review covers moisture-responsive textile mechanisms, progress, and challenges for practical thermoregulation applications.

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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Textile Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering

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  • Personal thermal management (PTM) enhances comfort and reduces energy consumption by controlling the skin microenvironment.
  • Wet-response textiles leverage water's high latent heat for thermal regulation, involving coupled heat and moisture transfer.
  • Recent advances in materials science and polymers have enabled the development of humidity-sensitive textiles for PTM.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review moisture-responsive textiles for personal thermal management.
  • To discuss mechanisms and research progress in humidity-sensitive textile design.
  • To identify limitations and future directions for practical applications.

Main Methods:

  • Review of moisture-responsive textiles based on flap opening/closing mechanisms.
  • Analysis of textiles utilizing yarn/fiber deformation for thermal regulation.
  • Discussion of sweat-evaporation regulation strategies through textile design.

Main Results:

  • Moisture-responsive textiles demonstrate potential for active thermal management.
  • Different textile designs exhibit varying mechanisms for heat and moisture transfer.
  • A significant gap persists between laboratory-scale concepts and real-world textile applications.

Conclusions:

  • Further research is needed to bridge the gap between lab-scale designs and practical textile applications.
  • Addressing engineering and scientific limitations is crucial for accelerating the adoption of moisture-responsive textiles.
  • Future developments should focus on enhancing the performance and applicability of these advanced textiles for thermoregulation.