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Briefing
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- Unique Cooling Material – Researchers from University of Colorado Boulder made new film that cools buildings without power source and refrigerants, harmful substances in air conditioning that turn into gas and harm planet’s ozone layer
- Material Structure – Polymethylpentene, transparent plastic material, mixes with tiny glass beads before turned into 50 micrometers thick material and coated with silver
- How It Works – Reflects incoming solar energy back into space while allowing object it is cooling to shed own heat
- Scalable and Low Cost Manufacturing – Can be made with standard roll-to-roll manufacturing techniques at 50 cents per square meter
- Applications – Applicable to residential and commercial infrastructure, such as buildings and power plants
- Future Plans – Build 200 square meter cooling farm in Boulder in 2017
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Energy
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Organization
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University of Colorado - Boulder
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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February 9, 2017
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