The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has unveiled pioneering personal cooling technologies designed to address rising global heat stress. By merging advanced textiles with intelligent wearables, researchers are reimagining comfort, health, and productivity in a warming world.
Soft tissue movement during exercise has long challenged sportswear and medical garment designers seeking precise fit and comfort. At the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, researchers have developed new tools to address this issue, offering data-driven insights that could improve compression clothing design and reduce the costly reliance on repeated physical prototyping.
A group of researchers has crafted an AI-enabled jacket with an electronic textile that warms the user without overheating and provides immediate temperature readings for easy monitoring.
Inspired by the adaptive thermal regulation mechanism in pigeons, a team of researchers in Hong Kong has developed the first-of-its-kind intelligent soft robotic clothing for automatic temperature adaptation and thermal insulation in hot environments, offering superior personal protection and thermal comfort across a range of temperatures.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a pioneering award-winning intelligent, electrically-activated sportswear with a nature-inspired active perspiration function.
A Hong Kong researcher shows how textile waste can be reused as thermal insulation for sustainable buildings as an effective green technology that synergistically combines two crucial components in achieving carbon neutrality: textile waste recycling and building energy saving.
Promotion of green science and technology will be crucial to solve sustainability issues from the root to the end of textiles' lifecycle, a research study has underlined.
In a bid to nurture innovation and technology talent and encourage young people to embrace innovative and entrepreneurial mindset to drive change for social good and societal impact, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has announced a Sustainable Future Challenge: Textile and Fashion.
