{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Zhou K"],"funding":["United States Department of Defense | United States Navy | Office of Naval Research","United States Department of Defense | United States Navy | Office of Naval Research (ONR)"],"pagination":["1072"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12852863"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["17(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Space cooling and lighting together consume 25% of global electricity, yet existing daytime radiative coolers are mostly limited to porous planar coatings that block visible light and lack durability. Here, we introduce rheology-optics coupling as a design principle that links polymer viscoelasticity to particle dispersion and optical scattering. Guided by this principle, we develop printable polydimethylsiloxane-zirconium oxide composites that achieve solar reflectance ( ~ 97.3%) and mid-infrared emissivity ( ~ 96.9%) comparable to the best reported values, despite a low filler loading of only ~4.5 vol.%. These scalable coatings provide up to 7.4 <sup>o</sup>C sub-ambient cooling and cut electricity use by 37% versus commercial paint in pilot-scale testing, while withstanding mechanical, "],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pubmed_title":["Printable polymer nanocomposites for scalable and architected radiative cooling."],"pmcid":["PMC12852863"],"funding_grant_id":["N000142412050"],"pubmed_authors":["Reeser GM","Braun PV","Cropek DM","Patel D","Tang S","Cai L","Wu F","Zhou K","Karua P","Hong S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Printable polymer nanocomposites for scalable and architected radiative cooling.","description":"Space cooling and lighting together consume 25% of global electricity, yet existing daytime radiative coolers are mostly limited to porous planar coatings that block visible light and lack durability. Here, we introduce rheology-optics coupling as a design principle that links polymer viscoelasticity to particle dispersion and optical scattering. Guided by this principle, we develop printable polydimethylsiloxane-zirconium oxide composites that achieve solar reflectance ( ~ 97.3%) and mid-infrared emissivity ( ~ 96.9%) comparable to the best reported values, despite a low filler loading of only ~4.5 vol.%. These scalable coatings provide up to 7.4 <sup>o</sup>C sub-ambient cooling and cut electricity use by 37% versus commercial paint in pilot-scale testing, while withstanding mechanical, ","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Dec","modification":"2026-06-10T09:05:52.495Z","creation":"2026-06-10T03:11:44.876Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12852863","cross_references":{"pubmed":["41455699"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-025-67831-0"]}}