{"id":216244,"date":"2025-06-19T05:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/passive-cooling-paint-sweats-off-heat-to-deliver-10x-cooling-and-30-energy-savings"},"modified":"2025-06-19T05:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:29:26","slug":"passive-cooling-paint-sweats-off-heat-to-deliver-10x-cooling-and-30-energy-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/passive-cooling-paint-sweats-off-heat-to-deliver-10x-cooling-and-30-energy-savings","title":{"rendered":"Passive cooling paint sweats off heat to deliver 10X cooling and 30% energy savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/passive-cooling-paint-sweats-off-heat-to-deliver-10x-cooling-and-30-energy-savings2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new cement-based paint can cool down the building by sweating off the heat. The cooling paint, named CCP-30, was designed by an international team of researchers and features a nanoparticle-modified porous structure composed of a calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) gel network.<\/p>\n<p>This design enabled it to achieve superior cooling by combining both radiative, evaporative and reflective cooling mechanisms, which allowed it to reflect 88\u201392% of sunlight, emit 95% of the heat as <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/infrared+radiation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrared radiation<\/a>, and hold about 30% of its weight in water, making it a paint ideal for keeping spaces cool throughout the day and across seasons.<\/p>\n<p>As per the findings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adt3372\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i>, the paint provides 10 times the cooling power of commercial cooling paints in tropical climates, resulting in electricity savings of 30 to 40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new cement-based paint can cool down the building by sweating off the heat. The cooling paint, named CCP-30, was designed by an international team of researchers and features a nanoparticle-modified porous structure composed of a calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) gel network. This design enabled it to achieve superior cooling by combining both radiative, evaporative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216244","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}