Printable, emissivity-adaptive and albedo-optimized covering for year-round energy saving

Li, Jiachen; Dong, Kaichen; Zhang, Tiancheng; Tseng, Derick; Fang, Cheng; Guo, Ruihan; Li, Jingang; Xu, Yujie; Dun, Chaochao; Urban, Jeffrey J.; Hong, Tianzhen; Grigoropoulos, Costas P.; Javey, Ali; Yao, Jie; Wu, Junqiao

doi:10.1016/j.joule.2023.09.011

Printable, emissivity-adaptive and albedo-optimized covering for year-round energy saving

Journal Article · Fri Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Joule

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2023.09.011· OSTI ID:2228585

Li, Jiachen ^[1]; Dong, Kaichen ^[2]; Zhang, Tiancheng ^[1]; Tseng, Derick ^[3]; Fang, Cheng ^[3]; Guo, Ruihan ^[1]; Li, Jingang ^[3]; Xu, Yujie ^[4]; Dun, Chaochao ^[5]; Urban, Jeffrey J. ^[5]; Hong, Tianzhen ^[4]; Grigoropoulos, Costas P. ^[3]; Javey, Ali ^[6]; Yao, Jie ^[1]; Wu, Junqiao ^[1]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

Radiative cooling uses high-emissivity materials to passively cool the surface of outdoor objects, such as building roofs on hot days. The issue of overcooling with this technology on cold days can be addressed by structures with thermal emissivity that is adaptive to temperature. Despite recent advances in temperature-adaptive structures, great challenges remain in their fabrication feasibility and unoptimized solar heating that may override the radiative cooling benefit. Here, in this work, we develop a printable, emissivity-adaptive and albedo-optimized covering (PEAC) based on recyclable materials with roll-to-roll fabrication. A PEAC automatically switches its sky-window emissivity from 0.25 to 0.85 when the surface temperature exceeds a pre-set transition temperature, delivering an albedo optimized for maximal year-round energy saving or thermal comfort in a given climate.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 2228585

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2212831

Journal Information:: Joule, Journal Name: Joule Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 7; ISSN 2542-4351

Publisher:: Elsevier - Cell PressCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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