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Continuous Homogeneous Thin Liquid Film on a Single Cross-Shaped Profiled Fiber with High Off-Circularity: Toward

Bojie Xu¹, Zhongyu Shi¹, Cong Lu¹

¹Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, International Research Institute for Multidisciplinary Science, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.

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Summary

New cross-shaped fibers enhance quick-drying fabric performance by creating uniform liquid films, increasing evaporation rates by 50% for better sweat management during strenuous exercise.

Keywords:

Laplace pressure cross‐shaped fiber homogeneous liquid film off‐circularity quick‐drying fabrics

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Textile Engineering
Fluid Dynamics

Background:

Quick-drying fabrics are crucial for strenuous exercise due to rapid sweat evaporation.
Profiled fibers enhance wicking, but microscopic liquid spreading can limit evaporation.
Plateau-Rayleigh instability causes liquid knots, reducing surface area for evaporation.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel fiber design that overcomes limitations in current quick-drying textiles.
To enhance sweat evaporation efficiency by controlling liquid film formation on fibers.
To investigate the impact of fiber cross-sectional geometry on fluidic instabilities and evaporation.

Main Methods:

Fabrication of cross-shaped profiled fibers with high off-circularity.
Analysis of liquid spreading and film formation on single fibers using fluid dynamics principles.
Measurement of evaporation rates for fabrics made from profiled fibers compared to cylindrical fibers.

Main Results:

The cross-shaped fibers form homogeneous thin liquid films without periodic liquid knots.
High off-circularity effectively suppresses Plateau-Rayleigh instability by modifying Laplace pressure.
Fabrics utilizing these fibers demonstrated approximately 50% higher evaporation rates than conventional cylindrical fibers.

Conclusions:

The developed cross-shaped profiled fibers significantly enhance evaporation capacity in textiles.
Controlling microscopic liquid film formation is key to improving quick-drying fabric performance.
This fiber design offers potential for advanced functional textiles and fluid coating applications.