Preparation and cooling performance analysis of double-layer radiative cooling hybrid coatings with TiO2/SiO2/Si3N4 micron particles

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/acdac0

Abstract Passive daytime radiative cooling is achieved by radiating heat into outer space through electromagnetic waves without energy consumption. A scalable double-layer coating with a mixture of TiO₂, SiO₂, and Si₃N₄ micron particles for radiative cooling is proposed in this study. The finite-difference time-domain algorithm is used to analyze the influence of particle size and coating thickness on radiative cooling performance. The results of the simulation show that the particle size of 3 μ can give the best cooling performance, and the coating thickness should be above 25 μ m for SiO₂ coating. Meanwhile, the mixture of SiO₂ and Si₃N₄ significantly improves the overall emissivity. Through sample preparation and characterization, the mixture coating with a 1:1 ratio addition on an Al substrate exhibits high reflectivity with a value of 87.6% in the solar spectrum, and an average emissivity of 92% in the infrared region (2.5 μ m-15 μ m), which can be attributed to the synergy among the optical properties of the material. Both coatings can theoretically be cooled by about 8 °C during the day and about 21 °C at nighttime with h_c=4 W·m^-2·K^-1. Furthermore, even considering the significant conduction and convection exchanges, the cooling effect persists. Outdoor experimental results show that the temperature of the double-layer radiative cooling coating is always lower than the ambient temperature under direct sunlight during the day, and can be cooled by about 5 °C on average, while lower than the temperature of the aluminum film by almost 12 °C.

Keywords: radiative cooling coatings thermal radiation infrared emissivity

Received: 03 March 2023
Revised: 18 May 2023
Accepted manuscript online: 02 June 2023

PACS:	44.40.+a	(Thermal radiation)
	42.79.Wc	(Optical coatings)
	03.65.Nk	(Scattering theory)

Corresponding Authors: Yong-Min Zhou
E-mail: yongminzhou@njtech.edu.cn

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Yang-Chun Zhao(赵洋春) and Yong-Min Zhou(周勇敏) Preparation and cooling performance analysis of double-layer radiative cooling hybrid coatings with TiO₂/SiO₂/Si₃N₄ micron particles 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 114401

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