{"title":"Revolutionizing Passive Radiative Cooling Materials: Biomass-Based Photoluminescent Aerogels Opens New Frontiers for Sustainable Energy Efficiency Cooling Solutions","authors":"Zhiyu Huang, Fengxiang Chen, Weilin Xu","doi":"10.1007/s42765-025-00559-0","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the increasing global energy consumption and cooling demands, traditional active cooling technologies face inefficiency and environmental challenges. Recently published in <i>Science</i>, a team led by Prof. Hai-bo Zhao has proposed and developed a biomass-based photoluminescent aerogel made from DNA and gelatin to address these challenges. This material achieves a solar-weighted reflectance of over 100% (0.4–0.8 μm) and provides a cooling effect of 16.0 °C under sunlight. This sustainable material is repairable, recyclable, and biodegradable, offering significant potential for energy-efficient buildings and wearable cooling devices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":459,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Fiber Materials","volume":"7 4","pages":"977 - 980"},"PeriodicalIF":21.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advanced Fiber Materials","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42765-025-00559-0","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
With the increasing global energy consumption and cooling demands, traditional active cooling technologies face inefficiency and environmental challenges. Recently published in Science, a team led by Prof. Hai-bo Zhao has proposed and developed a biomass-based photoluminescent aerogel made from DNA and gelatin to address these challenges. This material achieves a solar-weighted reflectance of over 100% (0.4–0.8 μm) and provides a cooling effect of 16.0 °C under sunlight. This sustainable material is repairable, recyclable, and biodegradable, offering significant potential for energy-efficient buildings and wearable cooling devices.
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Advanced Fiber Materials is a hybrid, peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary research journal which aims to publish the most important papers in fibers and fiber-related devices as well as their applications.Indexed by SCIE, EI, Scopus et al.
Publishing on fiber or fiber-related materials, technology, engineering and application.