In addition to sportswear and outdoor equipment, moisture-absorbent quick-drying fabrics are also widely used in everyday clothing and home textiles. In this study, three types of weft-knitted fabrics were designed using Coolmax fiber and polypropylene fiber. The Coolmax/PP fabric exhibits good stretchability with a strain of 180.5% and achieves a high cumulative individual transfer capability of 691.6%, with a water absorption rate of 50.2%/s. The moisture conductivity gradient presented good moisture and heat conductivity in a simulated human body temperature environment using an infrared camera. Furthermore, mathematical modeling was constructed and visual simulation analysis was conducted to explore moisture–thermal transfer behavior. The simulation results closely align with experimental data, providing insights into designing flexible and wearable quick-drying fabrics for thermal management.
Electro-conductive films with excellent flexibility and thermal behavior have great potential in the fields of wearable electronics, artificial muscle, and soft robotics. Herein, we report a super-elastic and electro-conductive composite film with a sandwich structure. The composite film was constructed by spraying Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) polymers onto a buckled conductive carbon nanotube-polydimethylsiloxane (CNTs-PDMS) composite film. In this system, the PVA and PDMS provide water sensing and stretchability, while the coiled CNT film offers sufficient conductivity. Notably, the composite film possesses high stretchability (205%), exceptional compression sensing ability, humility sensing ability, and remarkable electrical stability under various deformations. The produced CNT composite film exhibited deformation (bending/twisting) and high electro-heating performance (108 °C) at a low driving voltage of 2 V. The developed CNT composite film, together with its exceptional sensing and electrothermal performance, provides the material with promising prospects for practical applications in wearable electronics.