Radiative sky cooling: Fundamental principles, materials, and applications

Radiative sky cooling :

Radiative sky cooling reduces the temperature of a system by promoting heat exchange with the sky; its key advantage is that no input energy is required. We will review the origins of radiative sky cooling from ancient times to the modern day, and illustrate how the fundamental physics of radiative cooling calls for a combination of properties that may not occur in bulk materials. A detailed co...

Nonthermal Plasma Synthesis of Nanocrystals: Fundamental Principles, Materials, and Applications.

Nonthermal plasmas have emerged as a viable synthesis technique for nanocrystal materials. Inherently solvent and ligand-free, nonthermal plasmas offer the ability to synthesize high purity nanocrystals of materials that require high synthesis temperatures. The nonequilibrium environment in nonthermal plasmas has a number of attractive attributes: energetic surface reactions selectively heat th...

Radiative Cooling: Principles, Progress, and Potentials

The recent progress on radiative cooling reveals its potential for applications in highly efficient passive cooling. This approach utilizes the maximized emission of infrared thermal radiation through the atmospheric window for releasing heat and minimized absorption of incoming atmospheric radiation. These simultaneous processes can lead to a device temperature substantially below the ambient ...

Principles and Applications of Muon Cooling

E l e c t r o n p o s i t r o n (e§ ) c o l i i d e r s have been es s e n t i a l t o o l s in ga in ing an unders tanding of p a r t i c l e physics. However, their future use at higher energies i s s e v e r e l y l i m i t e d by r a d i a t i o n processes . Synchrot ron r a d i a t i o n in s torage r i n g s causes e l e c t r o n s to lose energy a t a r a te p r o p o r t i o n a l to ...

Quantum Mechanics: Fundamental Principles and Applications