{"id":163583,"date":"2023-05-09T12:31:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/iridescent-plant-based-coatings-that-cool-buildings-and-the-earth"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:31:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:31:17","slug":"iridescent-plant-based-coatings-that-cool-buildings-and-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/iridescent-plant-based-coatings-that-cool-buildings-and-the-earth","title":{"rendered":"Iridescent, plant-based coatings that cool buildings \u2014 and the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iridescent-plant-based-coatings-that-cool-buildings-and-the-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemists have made an iridescent, plant-based film that gets cooler in sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>The material, which comes in a range of shining colours, could one day coat buildings and cars, lowering the need for air conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>The film exhibits a smart property: called passive daytime radiative cooling, or PDRC, it doesn\u2019t absorb much light, and it radiates heat out at a wavelength that escapes the atmosphere and zooms straight into space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists have made an iridescent, plant-based film that gets cooler in sunlight. The material, which comes in a range of shining colours, could one day coat buildings and cars, lowering the need for air conditioning. The film exhibits a smart property: called passive daytime radiative cooling, or PDRC, it doesn\u2019t absorb much light, and it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}