Sustainable and self-cleaning bilayer coatings for high-efficiency daytime radiative cooling
Meijie Chen, Dan Pang, Hongjie Yan
Abstract
To balance super-hydrophobicity with micro-pores and high-efficient PDRC performance with nano-pores, we report a sustainable & scalable method to prepare a self-cleaning PDRC coating to achieve a contact angle of 163°, R̄ solar = 0.97 and LWIR = 0.96.
Topics & Concepts
Materials scienceDaytimeContact angleRadiative coolingBilayerCoatingOptoelectronicsMonolayerChemical engineeringNanotechnologyComposite materialMeteorologyAtmospheric sciencesMembraneGeneticsBiologyGeologyEngineeringPhysicsThermal Radiation and Cooling TechnologiesOptical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materialssolar cell performance optimization