Project description
Advancing radiative cooling technology
The rise in global temperatures has led to a rapid increase in energy consumption, particularly for building cooling, which accounts for about 10 % of total electricity use. Radiative cooling is a sustainable solution, which spontaneously cools objects by radiating heat into the cold outer space. While most of the research focused on developing high-efficiency cooling materials, less attention has been paid to regulating cooling power in response to outdoor temperature variations. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the ET-CPAARC project aims to achieve adaptive radiative cooling using conducting polymers with near-perfect thermal emission on hot days and suppressing emission to retain warmth in colder conditions.
Objective
Radiative cooling provides a sustainable solution for reducing the growing global energy consumption, particularly in cooling buildings which today alone constitutes around 10% of the global electricity consumption. In brief, radiative cooling spontaneously cools objects by radiating heat (thermal emission) to the cold outer space. While intense research has focused on developing materials with high radiative cooling efficiency, less attention has been paid on the need to be able to regulate the cooling power to adopt to varying outdoor temperature conditions. The host group recently demonstrated tuning of radiative cooling based on varying the redox-state of a conducting polymer thin film, but still with modest emissivity tuning of 25-40%. This project aims to significantly improve upon such tuning capability by introducing a novel concept which couples a Fabry-Perot optical cavity to a conducting polymer plasmonic antenna arrays. We aim to achieve near-perfect thermal emission in the oxidized (metallic) state of the polymer and to essentially switch off the thermal emission by electrically switching the polymer mirror and antennas to their reduced (dielectric) state.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01
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581 83 Linkoping
Sweden
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