Recent advances in material engineering and applications for passive daytime radiative cooling

S Wu, Y Cao, Y Li, W Sun - Advanced Optical Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) is a game‐changing strategy for cooling, aiming
to alleviate the major problems such as global warming. It is featured with zero energy …

[HTML][HTML] Passive daytime radiative cooling: Moving beyond materials towards real-world applications

A Aili, T Jiang, J Chen, Y Wen, R Yang, X Yin, G Tan - Next Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Passive daytime radiative cooling has emerged as a promising sustainable technique for
meeting ever-growing demand for cooling across multiple sectors. Although a number of …

Coupling effect of radiative cooling and phase change material on building wall thermal performance

Z Zhang, J Liu, N Zhang, X Cao, Y Yuan… - Journal of Building …, 2024 - Elsevier
Phase change material (PCM) featured with high latent heat thermal energy storage
capacity and isothermal phase transition is employed into building walls decorated with …

Effects of microstructure and moisture content on the radiative properties of porous films for radiative cooling

M Huang, GH Tang, X Ren, Q Sun, M Du - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Global warming is a major concern, and active cooling technology, which consumes
substantial energy, contributes to global warming. Radiative cooling (RC) is a form of …

[HTML][HTML] Achieving net negative sensible heat release from buildings

J Anand, M Alhazmi, DJ Sailor - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
Heat is added to the surroundings as a result of replacing natural landscapes with buildings.
This includes waste heat from air conditioning systems and heat transferred into the …

Low-emissivity interior wall strategy for suppressing overcooling in radiatively cooled buildings in cold environments

B Zhao, Q Xuan, W Zhang, M Hu, C Wang… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Buildings with radiative cooling can significantly reduce energy consumption for cooling, but
the overcooling phenomenon also occurs in cold seasons, which causes negative effects in …

Modeling impacts of super cool roofs on air temperature at pedestrian level in mesoscale and microscale climate models

T Sinsel, H Simon, AM Broadbent, M Bruse… - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
Passive daytime radiative cooling is gaining increasing relevance as recent studies report
that newly developed materials with very high reflectivity and emissivity could be able to …

Energy performance of integrated adaptive envelope systems for residential buildings

AHA Dehwah, M Krarti - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, the energy performance of an integrated adaptive envelope system (AES) is
evaluated when applied to detached houses in four US climates. Three main technologies …

Role of pavement radiative and thermal properties in reducing excess heat in cities

J Anand, DJ Sailor - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
While pavements are currently a significant contributor to the urban heat island effect,
modified pavements could play a role in cooling cities. Specifically, the radiative and thermal …