Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) is emerging as a promising cooling technology.
Owing to the high, broadband solar reflectivity and high mid‐infrared emissivity, daytime …

Windows are vital elements in the built environment that have a large impact on the energy
consumption in indoor spaces, affecting heating and cooling and artificial lighting …

A thermostat senses the temperature of a physical system and switches heating or cooling
devices on or off, regulating the flow of heat to maintain the system's temperature near a …

Radiative cooling engineering generally utilizes thermal radiation and sunlight reflection to
decrease the temperature of an object or space. In this work, a polymer-based nanophotonic …

Optical absorbers with dynamic tuning features are able to flexibly control the absorption
performance, which offers a good platform for realizing optical switching, filtering …

Precise control of a material's emissivity is critical for thermal‐engineering applications.
Metamaterials, which derive their optical properties from sub‐wavelength structures, have …

A new cool roof with potential to generate significant energy savings in buildings has been
developed from a metamaterial film named as RadiCold. Considering that the RadiCold film …

With full color throughout, this unique text provides an accessible yet rigorous introduction to
the basic principles, technology, and applications of nanophotonics. It explains key physical …

This review deals with critical issues in the development of energy-efficient windows from
two fundamentally different approaches, namely, spectral selectivity and photothermal effect …

Spectral emissivity control is critical for optical and thermal management in the ambient
environment because solar irradiance and atmospheric transmissions occur at distinct …