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> This is not a remotely useful approximation of what happens when you are actually wearing and using the clothing. They are trying to correlate materials with
by Eisenstein 3y ago
> This is not a remotely useful approximation of what happens when you are actually wearing and using the clothing.
They are trying to correlate materials with biological growth that causes BO in clothes in order to find out if certain types of material or treatments to material could be used to construct activewear that doesn't stink when you sweat in it.
What about the process seems useless to that end?
- JohnBooty 3y agoThe benefit of "moisture-wicking" synthetic materials is that they promote evaporative cooling relative to cotton, which tends to retain more water and takes longer to dry. In this experiment they've placed sweaty clothing into sealed bags for 28h before studying them, so that's pretty different than real-world usage. I will admit, though: if they cook up a fabric that stays fresh after such a torture test it should certainly perform well in the real world.