Resources

Official Publishable Summary for the project: https://www.euramet.org/project-21grd03

Communication material: Poster, Roll-up and Flyer

Press Release of the Project: download link

Presentations and video recordings from the PaRaMetriC Workshop

Modeling of daytime radiative cooling enhanced vapor-compression refrigeration systems. Energy, 2025, 340, 139101 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2025.139101

Performance and seasonal trade-offs of passive daytime radiative cooling roofs in European buildings. Energy and Buildings, 2025, 350, 116621 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.116621

Life cycle assessment of passive radiative cooling materials. Cleaner Environmental Systems, 2025, 18, 100319 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cesys.2025.100319

Open-hardware platform for synchronous performance testing of multiple passive radiative cooling materials. Cell Reports Physical Sciences, 2025, 6, 102688 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2025.102688

Figures of merit of passive daytime radiative cooling materials. EPJ Web of Conferences, 2025, 323. 10001 https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202532310001 

Emissivity and reflectivity measurements for passive radiative cooling technologies, International Journal of Thermophysics, 2025, 46, 66 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-025-03532-6

An inorganic water-based paint for high-durability passive radiative cooling, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2025, 13, 4137-4144 https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC04108A

Nanoporous film layers to enhance the performance of passive radiative cooling paint mixtures, Int. J. Thermophys., 2024, 45, 153 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-024-03439-8

Radiative cooling potential of a water-based paint formulation under realistic application conditions, ACS Appl. Opt. Mater., 2024, 2, 12, 2459

Passive daytime radiative cooling. Photoniques, 2024, 128: 56-61 https://doi.org/10.1051/photon/202412856.

Solvent role for the electrospinning of PVDF-HFP nanofibrous coatings for passive radiative cooling applications. EPJ Web of Conferences, 2024, 309, 13009 https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202430913009.

Patterning of SiO2 interfaces for radiative cooling applications. EPJ Web of Conferences, 2024, 287, 04026 https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328704026

Optical wood with switchable solar transmittance for all-round thermal management. Composites Part B: Engineering, 2024, 275, 111287 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2024.111287 (accepted version available at https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.14560)

Designer SiO2 Metasurfaces for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2024, 11(3), 2300603 https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202300603

Robust radiative cooling via surface phonon coupling-enhanced emissivity from SiO2 micropillar arrays. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024, 220, 125004 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2023.125004

Recent progress in organic-based radiative cooling materials: fabrication methods and thermal management properties. Material Advances, 2023, 4, 804-822 https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA01000C

Strain-adjustable reflectivity of polyurethane nanofiber membrane for thermal management applications. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023, 461, 142095 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.142095 (accepted version available at https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.13043)

Tecnologías de enfriamiento radiante diurno: el reto de la caracterización de los materiales y de la evaluación de su rendimiento de enfriamiento. E-MEDIDA (Centro Español de Metrología), 2022, 12, 20: link (permanent record http://hdl.handle.net/10261/277924)

1st Project Deliverable: "Report on the collection and production of candidate PRC materials, and identification of figures of merit to evaluate their cooling performance" (permanent record: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10260069)

2nd Project Deliverable: "Atmospheric downward longwave irradiance (flux) calculated using PASTICHE (the PaRaMetriC Atmospheric Spectral Tool for Irradiance Calculation using Hourly ERA5 data)" (permanent record: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17227621)

3rd Project Deliverable: "Report on the expected energy savings potential in the EU area and projected mitigation of the heat-island effect in urban areas for different types of PRC materials taking into account thermal modelling and the associated tolerances of each material" (permanent record: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17684584)

4th Project Deliverable: "Report on the validated reference techniques used for emittance and reflectance measurements of PRC materials in the spectral range 0.25 µm – 50 µm, with a target uncertainty below 3 % for emissivity and absorptivity" (permanent record: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17684599)

5th Project Deliverable: "Good practice guide on the conversion of near-normal directional emissivity into hemispherical emissivity with a target uncertainty of below 5 % taking into account the IR (2.5 µm – 50 µm) spectral region" (permanent record: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17684769)

6th Project Deliverable: "Report on transient methods optimised for determining thermal conductivity of thin films or coatings of PRC materials with a target uncertainty below 10 %" (permanent record: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17684781)

7th Project Deliverable: "Report on the development of a cooling performance testing protocol for PRC materials, including the design of appropriate thermal load and insulation for outdoor testing" (permanent record: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14510207)

8th Project Deliverable: "Good practice guide for on-site performance assessment of PRC materials, with recommendations on how to monitor relevant ambient parameters, to achieve a target uncertainty below 10 % for the figures of merit" (permanent record: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17684869)

Zotero Bibliographic database on Passive Radiative Cooling: https://www.zotero.org/groups/4538475/parametric

Zenodo community: https://zenodo.org/communities/21grd03-parametric

GitHub organization: https://github.com/21grd03-parametric