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ArticleNano letters2025

Transparent Wood for Passive Radiative Cooling of Solar Absorbers.

Farsa Ram, Martin Höglund, Mingna Liao, Tomas Hallberg, Magnus P Jonsson, Lars A Berglund, Ravi Shanker

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Article in Nano letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Farsa RamWallenberg Wood Science Center, Department of Fiber and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 56, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0476-3323
Martin HöglundWallenberg Wood Science Center, Department of Fiber and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 56, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-8324-485X
Mingna LiaoLaboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden.
Tomas HallbergDepartment of Electromagnetic Signatures, FOI-Swedish Defense Research Agency, 583 30 Linköping, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6754-262X
Magnus P JonssonLaboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-3002-3639
Lars A BerglundWallenberg Wood Science Center, Department of Fiber and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 56, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5818-2378
Ravi ShankerWallenberg Wood Science Center, Department of Fiber and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 56, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5790-513X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Passive radiative cooling is emerging as a sustainable strategy to reduce energy consumption by emitting heat directly through Earth's atmospheric transparency window. Here, we demonstrate transparent wood-based biocomposite coatings as an eco-friendly solution for passive radiative cooling under direct sunlight. We fabricated freestanding, micron-thick coatings using wood scaffolds functionalized with ZnO nanoparticles, followed by thiol-ene in situ polymerization to improve transparency and mechanical resilience. These coatings exhibit high visible transparency combined with exceptionally strong mid-infrared emissivity (∼0.95). When applied onto silicon substrates exposed to direct sunlight, ZnO-functionalized coatings effectively lowered the substrate temperature by ∼6-7 °C. This was primarily attributed to enhanced thermal radiation, highlighting their potential for mitigating overheating in solar cells and other sunlight-exposed structures. Additionally, the enhanced mechanical properties of these biocomposites provide versatility for structural and optical applications, positioning them as a cost-effective, bio-based alternative to traditional cooling technologies.

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atmospheric windowcellulosepassive radiative coolingthermal radiationthiol−enetransparent woodzinc oxide

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PMID40934480
PMCPMC12464995

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