Silk fabric will keep you cooler than cotton in summer?

Science : Will silk fabric keep you cooler than cotton in summer? Actually, scientists have prepared such a fabric of silk, it reduces the temperature by 12.5 degree Celsius compared to cotton fabric. Hence this cloth will give you relief from summer. This fabric has been prepared jointly by researchers from Nanjing University in China and Shanhui Fan of Stanford University.

Researchers say, this fabric has been designed so that it can keep the body cool when going out in the summer season. Generally silk reflects the sun's rays. Keeping this quality in mind, silk was modified to make a fabric that could reflect up to 95 percent of the sun's rays.

Silk fabric will keep you cooler than cotton in summer?

Humans use 15% of electricity worldwide to keep themselves cool. With the help of new cloth, the demand for electricity can be reduced to some extent. This will help keep the body cool without electricity. The more the cloth reflects the sun's rays and absorbs the least, the more it will protect the body from the effects of sunlight and keep it cool.

When this fabric was tested in the sun, it was found that it is up to 3.5 percent cooler than the surrounding air. It is the world's first fabric that is cooler than air. Nanoparticles of aluminum oxide have been added to this cloth. Therefore, it reflects infrared, visible and ultraviolet rays and keeps them away from the body.

IIT Delhi has developed a fabric that will kill harmful bacteria on its own. This cloth has been prepared to kill the deadly virus, which spreads from person to person just by touching it. All the tests to kill bacteria on the cloth have been successful. However, the fabric sample will be sent to the anti-viral lab for the final test.