Passive daytime radiative cooling: Fundamentals, material designs, and applications

• Published in: EcoMat (Beijing, China) Vol. 4; no. 1
• Main Authors: Chen, Meijie, Pang, Dan, Chen, Xingyu, Yan, Hongjie, Yang, Yuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.01.2022; Wiley
• Subjects: Atmosphere; Climate change; coating; Cold; Cooling; Daytime; Electricity; Emittance; Environmental impact; Global warming; Heat transfer; Performance evaluation; Photovoltaic cells; Polymers; Radiation; radiative cooling; Solar cells; solar reflectance; Space cooling (buildings); Temperature; thermal emittance; Water harvesting

Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) dissipates terrestrial heat to the extremely cold outer space without using any energy input or producing pollution. It has the potential to simultaneously alleviate the two major problems of energy crisis and global warming. In this review, we summarize gene...