{"title":"Passive daytime radiative cooling polymeric materials: Structure design, fabrication, and applications","authors":"Ling Liu, Jin Wang, Qingwen Li","doi":"10.1016/j.apmt.2024.102331","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Radiative cooling (RC) technology achieves passive cooling without consuming additional energy by reflecting sunlight and dissipating heat through the atmospheric transparent window via infrared radiation into the cold outer space. It presents an excellent alternative to address the current challenges of energy shortage and environmental stress. While numerous materials and structures demonstrate robust RC performance, polymers, with their inherent and strong infrared radiation characteristics, exhibit significant potential and possibilities in RC due to their diverse structures with designable chemical bonds and groups, large-scale production capabilities, and ease of manufacturing into RC devices. This review aims to provide a comprehensive summary of recent advances in utilizing polymers for passive daytime radiative cooling. It will explore the relationship between polymer structure and RC performance, discuss design principles for achieving high RC efficiency, examine the production of polymeric materials for coolers, and systematically review and discuss the broad application scenarios of RC polymers. Finally, this review will highlight future perspectives for the development of RC polymers.","PeriodicalId":8066,"journal":{"name":"Applied Materials Today","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Applied Materials Today","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2024.102331","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Radiative cooling (RC) technology achieves passive cooling without consuming additional energy by reflecting sunlight and dissipating heat through the atmospheric transparent window via infrared radiation into the cold outer space. It presents an excellent alternative to address the current challenges of energy shortage and environmental stress. While numerous materials and structures demonstrate robust RC performance, polymers, with their inherent and strong infrared radiation characteristics, exhibit significant potential and possibilities in RC due to their diverse structures with designable chemical bonds and groups, large-scale production capabilities, and ease of manufacturing into RC devices. This review aims to provide a comprehensive summary of recent advances in utilizing polymers for passive daytime radiative cooling. It will explore the relationship between polymer structure and RC performance, discuss design principles for achieving high RC efficiency, examine the production of polymeric materials for coolers, and systematically review and discuss the broad application scenarios of RC polymers. Finally, this review will highlight future perspectives for the development of RC polymers.
期刊介绍:
Journal Name: Applied Materials Today
Focus:
Multi-disciplinary, rapid-publication journal
Focused on cutting-edge applications of novel materials
Overview:
New materials discoveries have led to exciting fundamental breakthroughs.
Materials research is now moving towards the translation of these scientific properties and principles.