International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
Table 3 Methodology for the evaluation of the performance of aerogel clothing
From: Research trends of the application of aerogel materials in clothing
Application purpose of aerogel | 22 studies on aerogel clothing | Experimental samples | Experimental methods | Measurement items | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aerogel clothing | Aerogel fabric | Human-wearing | Manikin-wearing | Machine-measuring | Thermal performance | Mechanical properties | Comfort performance | ||
Space suits | Paul and Diller (2003) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | – | – |
Tang et al. (2003) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | O (+) | – | |
Tang et al. (2006) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | O (+) | – | |
Crowell et al. (2015) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (−) | O (+) | – | |
Wetsuits | Nuckols et al. (2005) | Oa (I) | – | O (6) | – | – | O (+) | – | O (+) |
Nuckols et al. (2009) | Oa (I) | – | O (1) | O | O | O (+) |  | – | |
Bardy et al. (2006b) | O (II) | – | O (1) | – | – | O (−) | – | – | |
Firefighter clothing | Ren et al. (2011) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | – | – |
Qi et al. (2013) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | – | – | |
Zhang et al. (2013) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | – | – | |
Jin et al. (2013) | O (I) | O (I) | – | O | O | O (+) | – | – | |
Shaid et al. (2014) | – | O (III) | – | – | O | O (+) | – | O (+) | |
Shaid et al. (2016) | – | O (III) | – | – | O | O (+) | – | O (+) | |
Shaid et al. (2018a) | – | O (III) | – | – | O | O (+) | – | O (+) | |
Shaid et al. (2018b) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | – | – | |
Huang and Guo (2017) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | – | – | |
Zhang et al. (2017) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | – | – | |
Kim et al. (2018) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | – | O (+) | |
Footwear/insoles | Oh and Park (2009) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | O (+) | – |
Zrim et al. (2015) | – | O (I) | – | – | O | O (+) | O (+) | – | |
Lee et al. (2018) | – | O (I) | O (10) | – | – | O (+) | – | – | |
Yang et al. (2018) | – | O (II) | – | – | O | O (+) | O (+) | – | |
Percentage of 22 studies | 4 (18.2%) | 19 (86.4%) | 4 (18.2%) | 2 (9.1%) | 19 (86.4%) | 22 (100%) | 6 (27.3%) | 5 (22.7%) | |