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A universal green coating strategy on textiles for simultaneous color and thermal management

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Colored textiles with thermal management capabilities have attracted increasing attention for satisfying aesthetics, comfort, and energy saving demands. In this work, we report a universal approach based on physical vapor deposition of TiO2/SiO2/Si (cool) and Ag/Si (warm) nanophotonic structures, which enables various types of textiles with similar color but different thermal management capabilities. By controlling the thickness of the Si layer in the cool and warm nanophotonic structures, cool and or warm nylon textiles with different colors, such as yellow, orange, pink, purplish red, violet grey, indigo and grey, were obtained. Compared with IR-opaque conventional blank nylon, the temperature of artificial skin increased by 10.2 °C/1.7 °C and 2.4 °C/0 °C under mid-day sunlight exposure/indoor conditions, respectively, for similar rose-brown warm and cool nanophotonic-structured nylon textiles; compared with IR-transparent blank nanoporous polyethylene (nanoPE) textiles, the temperature of artificial skin increased by 19.8 °C/3.6 °C and 4.1°C/0 °C under mid-day sunlight exposure/indoor conditions, respectively, for similar pink warm and cool nanophotonic-structured nanoPE textiles. Moreover, the developed nanophotonic structures and materials used here endowed the textile with excellent anti-UV and antibacterial properties. This work provides a green strategy for dye-free coloring, thermal management, and textile multifunctionalization.

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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61774160 and 61875209), Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (No. LY19F040003), Ningbo Key Laboratory of Silicon and Organic Thin Film Optoelectronic Technologies.

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  1. Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, People’s Republic of China

    Qiao Hu, Jinhua Huang, Jie Wang, Jia Li, Yuehui Lu & Weijie Song

  2. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

    Qiao Hu & Weijie Song

  3. Faculty of Electrical and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, People’s Republic of China

    Ruiqin Tan

  4. Ningbo Customs Technology Center, Ningbo, 315012, People’s Republic of China

    Yun Feng

  5. Ningbo Joysun Product Testing Service Company, Ningbo, 315012, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaowei Xu

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Hu, Q., Huang, J., Wang, J. et al. A universal green coating strategy on textiles for simultaneous color and thermal management. J Mater Sci 57, 11477–11490 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-022-07286-6

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