A cooling device suitable for a
human body. The cooling device comprises a phase-change
composite material and an outer
coating material, wherein the phase-change
composite material is packaged inside the outer
coating material. During a heat absorption and cooling process, the phase-change
composite material is converted into a gel phase from a
solid phase. The phase-change composite material mainly comprises a phase-change material and a gelling agent, wherein the phase-change material is an organic phase-change material, and has a phase-
change temperature of 2-38°C; and the gelling agent mainly comprises two chain segments: one being a
chain segment which is miscible with the phase-change material, and the other one being a
chain segment which spontaneously forms physical crosslinking by means of non-
covalent bond interaction. The gelling agent and the phase-change material mutually construct a three-dimensional
network structure to obtain the phase-change composite material. When filling a cooling device, the phase-change composite material and the gelling agent are firstly heated and melted, then cooled to the phase-
change temperature and the gelation temperature or higher, and packaged to obtain the cooling device. The cooling device has the advantages of a short
curing time, a long cooling duration, good safety performance, etc.