Passive daytime radiative cooling materials toward real-world applications

C Wang, H Chen, F Wang - Progress in Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) is an emerging cooling technique of a sunshine-
exposed terrestrial surface by dissipating excessive heat into the deep-cold outer space. It is …

Materials in radiative cooling technologies

R Liu, S Wang, Z Zhou, K Zhang, G Wang… - Advanced …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Radiative cooling (RC) is a carbon‐neutral cooling technology that utilizes thermal radiation
to dissipate heat from the Earth's surface to the cold outer space. Research in the field of RC …

Integrated triboelectric nanogenerator and radiative cooler for all-weather transparent glass surfaces

G Lee, H Kang, J Yun, D Chae, M Jeong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Sustainable energies from weather are the most ubiquitous and non-depleted resources.
However, existing devices exploiting weather-dependent energies are sensitive to weather …

Biological optics, photonics and bioinspired radiative cooling

Z Yan, H Zhai, D Fan, Q Li - Progress in Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Radiative cooling with eco-friendly and zero-energy advantages is considered one of the
most viable solutions to address the conflict between traditional energy-intensive cooling …

Bioinspired polymer films with surface ordered pyramid arrays and 3D hierarchical pores for enhanced passive radiative cooling

J He, Q Zhang, Y Zhou, Y Chen, H Ge, S Tang - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Passive radiative cooling (PRC) has been acknowledged to be an environmentally friendly
cooling technique, and especially artificial photonic materials with manipulating light–matter …

Construction of robust silica-hybridized cellulose aerogels integrating passive radiative cooling and thermal insulation for year-round building energy saving

Y Liu, X Bu, R Liu, M Feng, Z Zhang, M He… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Passive radiative cooling (PRC) is a promising carbon reduction technology that radiates
heat into the universe through atmospheric transparency window (ATW) to cool objects …

Switchable and tunable radiative cooling: Mechanisms, applications, and perspectives

X Zhao, J Li, K Dong, J Wu - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
The cost of annual energy consumption in buildings in the United States exceeds 430 billion
dollars (Science 2019, 364 (6442), 760− 763), of which about 48% is used for space thermal …

Synchronous Radiative Cooling and Thermal Insulation in SiO2/Poly(vinyl alcohol) Composite Aerogel for Energy Savings in Building Thermal Management

CQ Ma, CH Xue, W Fan, XJ Guo, J Cheng… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Daytime passive radiative cooling is an effective way to reduce energy consumption for
building cooling. However, overcooling might occur in radiative cooling at low-temperature …

Free‐Standing Bacterial Cellulose‐Templated Radiative Cooling Liquid Crystal Films with Self‐Adaptive Solar Transmittance Modulation

B Li, C Valenzuela, Y Liu, X Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Passive radiative cooling materials can efficiently reflect solar radiation and spontaneously
dissipate heat through the long‐wave infrared (LWIR) transmission window to the coldouter …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrahigh performance passive radiative cooling by hybrid polar dielectric metasurface thermal emitters

Y Zhang, Y Chen, T Wang, Q Zhu, M Gu - Opto-Electronic …, 2024 - opticsjournal.net
Real-world passive radiative cooling requires highly emissive, selective, and
omnidirectional thermal emitters to maintain the radiative cooler at a certain temperature …