Coatings improve the shielding of textiles from ultraviolet light

Putting "paint" on the clothes, you can wear them without fear of ultraviolet rays... Professor Zhou Ninglin, a member of the Chinese Materials Society and the School of Chemistry and Environmental Science of Nanjing Normal University, recently showed the "new materials application" on the "Honours Forum" of the school. "Happy life."

    The glare of the reflected light, the white concrete wall... The summer is hard to bear for the urban people. Professor Zhou Ninglin revealed that a new generation of multi-functional coatings suitable for “changing the face” of urban building exterior walls has undergone accelerated aging tests and is in trial production. Participating in research and development, she introduced this new material to achieve intelligent light conversion, nano heat insulation, coating film life is extended by 2 times, thermal insulation performance is excellent, greatly reducing the summer heat and winter cold caused by the "ice and fire two days "The energy consumption."

    The use of new materials in the textile sector is even more "amazing": it allows you to save N sunscreens in one summer! Professor Zhou introduced that her research and development team has recently developed a “coating” that can be used in textiles. The fabric treated by this coating can triple the UV light and absorb 300nm and 360nm ultraviolet light efficiently, especially for UVA and UVB. It has good absorption, reflection and scattering effects and emits red light. The production process of the finished clothes is green and low in energy consumption, which not only can greatly increase the UPF value (UV protection coefficient) by more than 10 times, but also the attenuation rate of UVA and UVB transmittance exceeds 86%.