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A review of clear sky radiative cooling developments and applications in renewable power systems and passive building cooling
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In this paper, a detailed literature survey of published studies on selective emitter structures for daytime and nighttime cooling purposes is presented and a detailed energy analysis is performed identifying key performance indicators and evaluating the cooling performance under various conditions.About:
This article is published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells.The article was published on 2018-05-01. It has received 240 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Radiative cooling & Passive cooling.read more
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Radiative cooling: A review of fundamentals, materials, applications, and prospects
TL;DR: In this article, the current state of the art in passive radiative cooling technology is reviewed and updated, and the advanced materials and structures of various radiators, which are popular topics in radiative heating, are presented.
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Radiative sky cooling: Fundamental principles, materials, and applications
Dongliang Zhao,Dongliang Zhao,Ablimit Aili,Yao Zhai,Shaoyu Xu,Gang Tan,Xiaobo Yin,Ronggui Yang +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the fundamental principles of radiative sky cooling as well as the recent advances, from both materials and systems point of view, are reviewed with special attention to technology viability and benefits.
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A structural polymer for highly efficient all-day passive radiative cooling.
TL;DR: In this article, a hierarchical porous array polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) film with a micropore array combined with random nanopores for highly efficient day and nighttime passive radiative cooling is presented.
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Passive directional sub-ambient daytime radiative cooling
Bikram Bhatia,Arny Leroy,Yichen Shen,Lin Zhao,Melissa Gianello,Duanhui Li,Tian Gu,Juejun Hu,Marin Soljacic,Evelyn N. Wang +9 more
TL;DR: A directional approach to passive radiative cooling that exploits the angular confinement of solar irradiation in the sky to achieve sub-ambient cooling during the day regardless of the emitter properties in the solar spectrum is shown.
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Spectrally Selective Inorganic-Based Multilayer Emitter for Daytime Radiative Cooling
Dongwoo Chae,Mingeon Kim,Pil Hoon Jung,Soomin Son,Junyong Seo,Yuting Liu,Bong Jae Lee,Heon Lee +7 more
TL;DR: A daytime radiative cooler was designed to have a selective emissive property of electromagnetic waves in the atmospheric transparency window of 8-13 μm and preserve low solar absorption for enhancing radiative cooling performance.
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Radiative cooling of solar cells
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a general approach to radiatively lower the operating temperature of a solar cell through sky access, while maintaining its solar absorption, and demonstrated that the radiative cooling effect is substantial, even in the presence of significant convection and conduction and parasitic solar absorption in the cooling layer.
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Radiative Heat Pumping from the Earth Using Surface Phonon Resonant Nanoparticles
Angus Gentle,Geoffrey Smith +1 more
TL;DR: A mixture of SiC and SiO(2) nanoparticles yields high performance cooling at low cost within a practical cooling rig and optical properties are presented and subambient cooling performance analyzed for doped polyethylene on aluminum.
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Double-layer nanoparticle-based coatings for efficient terrestrial radiative cooling
TL;DR: In this paper, a double-layer coating consisting of a top reflective layer with high solar albedo and a bottom emissive layer are achieved by properly designed TiO 2, SiO 2, and SiC nanoparticles.
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Sub-ambient non-evaporative fluid cooling with the sky
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate fluid cooling panels that harness radiative sky cooling to cool fluids below the air temperature with zero evaporative losses, and use almost no electricity, and show that the panels can cool water up to 5'∘C below the ambient air temperature at water flow rates of 0.2'l'min−1'm−2.
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A Subambient Open Roof Surface under the Mid‐Summer Sun
Angus Gentle,Geoff B. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: A novel material open to warm air stays below ambient temperature under maximum solar intensities of mid‐summer, and is found to be 11 °C cooler than a commercial white cool roof nearby.