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1. A composite fabric with self-regulated infrared emissivity, comprising:
(a) a plurality of environment responsive meta fibers positioned in a predetermined spaced-apart relationship each with respect to the other with a respective first distance between respective neighboring meta fibers, each of said plurality of meta fibers includes: a base fiber, an optical structure bonded to said base fiber, thus forming an optical structure-base fiber composite, wherein an electromagnetic coupling between said optical structures on said neighboring of said plurality of meta fibers determines an infrared emissivity of the composite fabric, and an environment responsive mechanism operatively coupled to said optical structure-base fiber composite, said environment responsive mechanism being configured to modulate a distance between said optical structures in accordance with at least one environmental parameter applied to said meta fibers, wherein, when said at least one environmental parameter applied to said plurality of meta fibers deviates from a predetermined environmental parameter zone, said environment responsive mechanism operates to control said first distance between said respective neighboring meta fibers to regulate the electromagnetic coupling between said optical structures bonded thereto, thereby adjusting the infrared emissivity of the composite fabric to decrease said deviation between said applied at least one environmental parameter and said predetermined environmental parameter zone. |