High-tech cloth could make summer days a breeze
Tiny pore-pocked plastic lets heat out yet blocks light
![polyester, cotton, nanoPE](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/090116_MR_cool-cloth_main.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
COOL CLOTH Traditional textiles like polyester and cotton tend to trap body heat, but a plastic material called nanoPE lets heat escape. Researchers are looking at ways of using the material to make a high-tech fabric.
YI CUI GROUP/STANFORD UNIVERSITY (NanoPE); JAMES LOOMIS/ UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND (polyester, cotton)