Warm/Cool Feeling Characteristics of Ceramic-Incorporated Fabrics: Process, Characterization, and Thermal Properties

Abstract

Recently, high performance functional textile goods have been commercialized using various ceramic nano-powders such as ZrC, Al2O3, SiO2, ZnO, ATO and TiO2 embedded in the yarns and fabrics. This study examines warm-cool feeling characteristics of ceramic incorporated fabrics with their process, characterization and thermal characteristics. This topic is divided as follows : review (introduction), preparation (experimental), characterization with thermal property (results and discussion), and summary. As a review, heat release and storage properties of the various ceramic embedded fabrics are introduced and multifunctional properties of different ceramic-embedded fabrics such as UV-cut and anti-static with thermal wear comfort are reviewed with types of ceramic particles embedded in the yarns through the literatures published up to now. In addition, warm-cool feelings of ceramic-embedded fabrics prepared in this study are compared and summarized with dye-affinity, color-fastness and tactile wearing performance of the ceramic-embedded fabrics. Finally, future prospect for application to textiles of ceramic materials are proposed.