For architects looking to build structures that are sustainable and efficient, today’s solar-reflective coatings offer a powerful, cost-effective option. Many of the benefits of solar-reflective ...

Researchers from Australia’s Western Sydney University have created a reflective coating for solar tiles to reduce the operating temperatures of tiles by up to 11 C, while increasing their electrical ...

Cool colours: the hotter square on the left is coated in a single layer of black paint while the cooler square in the right is a black bilayer. (Courtesy: Jyotirmoy Mandal) A bilayer paint that can ...

The initiative covers roads, playgrounds, and parking lots, and it has already cooled the surface by 10 to 12 degrees. [Photo: courtesy GAF Cool Community Project] The team behind the GAF Cool ...

Researchers in Morocco have examined the effects of an anti-reflective coating on solar panel performance under desert conditions and have found that it enhanced both the annual performance ratio and ...

Xiulin Ruan, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering, holds up his lab’s sample of the whitest paint on record. (Purdue University/Jared Pike) In an effort to curb global warming, ...

New research from Purdue University has helped develop a white paint that has a solar reflectance of 97.9 percent, which can help keep objects painted with it cooler. A development of an older ...

The groundbreaking innovation of solar paint has the potential to generate an impressive 1,000 watts per square meter, potentially revolutionizing how we harness and utilize solar energy in our daily ...