Personal thermal management offers a path to reduce climate control energy use Take a few seconds to look around and list all the technologies that are indispensable for you. If your list does not include textiles, try to live a typical day without them. Textiles are arguably one of the earliest human inventions. Without textiles to cover the human body for warmth, our ancestors would not have been able to spread across the various climate zones of the Earth. Today, many textiles are made for social etiquette and aesthetic purposes, but the pressing threat of global warming has created demand for innovative textiles that help to better cool the person who wears them.
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