Radiative Cooling
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 414
Special Issue Editors
Interests: radiative cooling; solar thermal conversion; spectral-selective coatings
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Interests: solar energy, radiative sky cooling, and their applications in building energy-saving
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As an effective and renewable way of passive cooling without power input, radiative cooling has attracted considerable attention in the field of energy-saving and has been recognized as one of the ambient-energy harvesting technologies. Radiative cooling can cool the sky-faced objects by radiating a fraction of the object’s thermal radiation to the cold universe (~3K), mainly relying on the atmospheric transparency window in the infrared band from 8 to 13 μm. Recent progress has demonstrated that a variety of optical emitters can achieve efficient radiative cooling, including multilayer films, photonic coolers, porous polymers, and optical paints. On the system level, radiative cooling has been used in various applications, such as building energy-saving, photovoltaic cooling, water collection, and personal thermal management.
This Special Issue is set up to explore new findings on the radiative cooling topics that can be interesting concepts, novel designs, and potential applications, which aims to further promote the development of radiative cooling and correspondingly achieve fossil energy saving and greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Topics covered in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Radiative cooling systems and applications, including energy-saving buildings, solar cell cooling;
- Hybrid energy systems, such as solar harvesting and radiative cooling hybrid utilization;
- Spectrally selective coatings for radiative cooling;
- Nanostructure materials for radiative cooling;
- Spectrum control method for radiative cooling;
- Large-scale, cost-effective fabrication methods for radiative cooling materials;
- State-of-the-art reviews on radiative cooling.
Dr. Bin Zhao
Dr. Mingke Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- radiative cooling
- passive cooling
- atmospheric window
- thermal radiation
- optical films
- spectral selectivity
- passive thermal management
