Owing to global temperature increases and frequent extreme weather events, outdoor
personal comfort is becoming more critical to human health and sustainable development …

Background For many applications in research, material development and testing, physical
skin models are preferable to the use of human skin, because more reliable and …

Both antigravity directional water transport and ultrafast evaporation are critical to achieving
a high-performance moisture-wicking fabric. The transpiration in vascular plants possess …

Efficient sweat release and heat dissipation are required for functional textiles that improve
comfort and productivity while being worn in daily life. However, the porous structure of …

Among different fibrous e-textile sensors, humidity sensor has a particular significance in
respiration monitoring, water presence alert, and skin contact/non-contact indication. These …

Abstract “Air‐conditioning” textiles with thermal‐or moisture‐managing functions are of high
interest for not only improving human comfort but also reducing energy consumption …

Janus fabrics with moisture management ability have great potential for improving both
physiological and psychological comfort of human body. However, current methods for …

Personal moisture and thermal management fabrics that can facilitate sweat removal and
regulating skin temperature are highly desired for improving human comfort and …

Hypothesis Growing use of comfortable functional textiles has resulted in increased demand
of excellent directional moisture (sweat) transport feature in textiles. However, designing …

Fabrics are soft against the skin, flexible, easily accessible and able to wick away
perspiration, to some extent for local private thermal management. In this review, we classify …