Energy & Sustainability

Radiative cooling is the process by which a body loses heat by thermal radiation. As Planck's law describes, every physical body spontaneously and continuously emits electromagnetic radiation.

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Zhou, Lyu, Jacob Rada, Huafan Zhang, Haomin Song, Seyededriss Mirniaharikandi, Boon S. Ooi, and Qiaoqiang Gan. "Sustainable and inexpensive polydimethylsiloxane sponges for daytime radiative cooling." Advanced Science 8, no. 23 (2021): 2102502.

Zhou, Lyu, Haomin Song, Jianwei Liang, Matthew Singer, Ming Zhou, Edgars Stegenburgs, Nan Zhang et al. "A polydimethylsiloxane-coated metal structure for all-day radiative cooling." Nature Sustainability 2, no. 8 (2019): 718-724.