Dynamically Tunable All-Weather Daytime Cellulose Aerogel Radiative Supercooler for Energy-Saving Building

A passive cooling strategy without any electricity input has shown a significant impact on overall energy consumption globally. However, designing tunable daytime radiative cooler to meet requirement of different weather conditions is still a big challenge, especially in hot, humid regions. Here, a novel type of tunable, thermally insulating and compressible cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) aerogel coolers is prepared via chemical cross-linking and unidirectional freeze casting process. Such aerogel coolers can achieve a subambient temperature drop of 9.2 °C under direct sunlight and promisingly reached the reduction of ∼7.4 °C even in hot, moist, and fickle extreme surroundings. The tunable cooling performance can be realized via controlling the compression ratio of shape-malleable aerogel coolers. Furthermore, energy consumption modeling of using such aerogel coolers in buildings in China shows 35.4% reduction of cooling energy. This work can pave the way toward designing high-performance, thermal-regulating materials for energy consumption savings.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

Nano letters - 22(2022), 10 vom: 25. Mai, Seite 4106-4114

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cai, Chenyang [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Zechang [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Chunxiang [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Bianjing [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Wenbo [VerfasserIn]
Gerhard, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
Nimerovsky, Evgeny [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Kai [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9004-34-6
Aerogel cooler
All-weather
Cellulose
Cellulose nanocrystal
Daytime radiative cooling
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tunable

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Date Completed 26.05.2022

Date Revised 31.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00844

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM340395109