Paint achieves seemingly impossible by cooling buildings in direct sun

Infra-red heat map image showing passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) polymer paint

Source: © Jyotirmoy Mandal

Coating offers a route to zero-carbon air conditioning

In a warming world, cool buildings become ever more vital for people’s comfort and safety. However, air conditioning can be both impractical and environmentally costly. Now US researchers have developed a simple coating that can be painted onto a surface so that, even when it’s in the sun, it still cools down.