Embracing the Void: Engineers Use Air Voids to Create Cooling Paint

www.engineering.com ^ | October 08, 2018 | Emily Pollock

[Red Badger]

He does now! ..................

[Zathras]

Hey...Fizix is hard.
:-)

[oldasrocks]

Would it cool down my hot headed wife if I painted her with that stuff?

[Robert DeLong]

Now they can really paint New York Red. 8>)

[null and void]

Sometimes, I want to strangle reporters.

Only sometimes?

[null and void]

Ever hear of intumescent paint?

[Reily]

I think there’s a book on the subject!

[DUMBGRUNT]

Does micro and nanoscale dirt and grime cut the efficiency?

Is it easy to clean?

Can you dirty it up for some solar gain in the winter?

How does it compare with Toyota’s Thermo-Tect Lime Green paint

https://www.treehugger.com/cars/toyotas-thermo-tect-lime-green-paint-saves-energy-and-lives-why-isnt-every-car-color.html
That’s why Toyota’s new lime green paint is so interesting; it is actually designed to save energy. According to Nicholas Stecher in Wired, it is “packed with tiny reflective titanium oxide particles and doesn’t contain carbon black, a common ingredient in paint that tends to absorb lots of heat.”

[Fungi]

Aureobasidium species. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/euot-ooa110518.php.

[NorthMountain]

But the captioned image is NOT of ultraviolet light. It is of near infrared.

The captioned image is captured in the Long Wave Infrared (LWIR), 8-12 micron wavelength.