# Passive radiative cooling applications for thermal and electrical energy harvesting

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## Created at

2024-10-02T01:28:39.717765Z

## Updated at

2025-06-02T23:30:07.152883Z

## Published at

2025-06-02T23:23:31.044418Z

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https://doi.org/10.48505/nims.4790

## First published url

https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003409090

## Date published

2024-03-20

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## Title

- title: Passive radiative cooling applications for thermal and electrical energy
    harvesting
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: Passive radiative cooling, making use of a sky-facing surface simultaneously
    reflecting solar radiation and emitting mid-infrared radiation to preserve a sub-ambient
    surface temperature, inspired many novel engineering applications. This article
    reviews recent progresses on radiative cooling applications for thermal and electrical
    energy harvesting. Chilled water collection is a form of thermophotonic energy
    conversion enabled by a fluid-wall heat transfer interface. Discussed by thermal
    and energy responses of a chilled water collection system subjected to a perturbation
    in fluid flow and verified by a proof-of-concept experiment, it was shown that
    water temperature reduction and energy conversion efficiency are always inversely
    correlated, in which temperature reduction decreases with increasing flow rate,
    but efficiency increases with increasing flow rate. Moreover, thermoelectricity
    generation is a form of thermoelectrical energy conversion facilitated by radiative
    cooling. Demonstrated by a field investigation, it enables direct electricity
    generation from a renewable resource at nighttime, realizes 24-hour unstopped
    electricity generation with a deliverable electrical voltage up to 20 mV. However,
    radiative cooling and derived energy conversion performances can be hindered by
    local weather conditions heavily. Field investigative results on the surface temperature
    reduction, as a cardinal indicator on radiative cooling performance, can be correlated
    with the sky temperature which is a lumped parameter of ambient temperature, relative
    humidity and cloudiness. This reveals the difficulty in tropical and subtropical
    radiative cooling, where the cooling demand is the most. Possible overcoming solutions
    are highlighted for further research and development.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: eng

## Creator

- name: Ross Y. M. Wong
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7556-3348
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
  department: Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)/Nanomaterials
    Field/Optical Nanostructure Team
  ror: https://ror.org/026v1ze26
- name: Christopher Y. H. Chao
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2974-0403
  organization: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- name: Satoshi Ishii
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0731-8428
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
  department: Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)/Nanomaterials
    Field/Optical Nanostructure Team
  ror: https://ror.org/026v1ze26

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organization: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group

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## Keyword

- subject: Radiative cooling
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- subject: Thermal radiation
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- subject: Optical nanostructure
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## Rights

- description: 'This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC
    Press in Thermal Plasmonics and Metamaterials for a Low-Carbon Society on 3 June
    2024, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781003409090 or http://www.crcpress.com/9781003409090'
  identifier: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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start_date: 2024-06-03
end_date: 2025-06-03

## Journal

- title: Thermal plasmonics and metamaterials for low carbon society

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