Enhancing the cooling potential of photoluminescent materials through evaluation of thermal and transmission loss mechanisms

Samira Garshasbi,
Shujuan Huang,
Jan Valenta &
Mat Santamouris


Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 14725 (2021) Cite this article
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-94354-7
 

Photoluminescent materials are advanced cutting-edge heat-rejecting materials capable of reemitting a part of the absorbed light through radiative/non-thermal recombination of excited electrons to their ground energy state. Photoluminescent materials have recently been developed and tested as advanced non-white heat-rejecting materials for urban heat mitigation application.

The heat mitigation potential and climatic impact of super-cool broadband radiative coolers on a city scale

Day Time Radiative Cooling is the air conditioning of tomorrow. The development of super cool materials can decrease the peak temperature of cities up to 3 C and provide huge energy benefits. Extremelly happy to share the newly published work of our lab, published in the prestigious journal Cell Reports on Physical Science. This is part of the PhD work our our excellent student Jie Feng.