Sustainable and Inexpensive Polydimethylsiloxane Sponges for Daytime Radiative Cooling.

ABSTRACT: Radiative cooling is an emerging cooling technology that can passively release heat to the environment. To obtain a subambient cooling effect during the daytime, chemically engineered structural materials are widely explored to simultaneously reject sunlight and preserve strong thermal emission. However, many previously reported fabrication processes involve hazardous chemicals, which can hinder a material's ability to be mass produced. In order to eliminate the hazardous chemicals used in the fabrication of previous works, this article reports a white polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) sponge fabricated by a sustainable process using microsugar templates. By substituting the chemicals for sugar, the manufacturing procedure produces zero toxic waste and can also be endlessly recycled via methods

SUBMITTER: Zhou L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8655219 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature