Solar-Adaptive Cooling Blocks Composed of Recycled Fabric.

Radiative cooling technologies have had a significant impact on advancing carbon neutrality efforts by significantly improving the passive cooling efficiency. The tandem of conduction and radiation enables solar-adaptive radiative cooling through the insulating effect of materials along with solar absorption, which affects the thermal state of materials and enhances radiative thermal transfer from the surface under solar irradiation. This enhancement is achieved by utilizing the porous polymeric structure of materials, which facilitates improved conduction pathways along with solar reflectance, while maintaining the effective emission of thermal radiation.

Adaptive cooling strategy via human hair: High optothermal conversion efficiency of solar radiation into thermal dissipation.

Natural species have developed complex nanostructures in a hierarchical pattern to control the absorption, reflection, or transmission of desired solar and infrared wavelengths. This bio-inspired structure is a promising method to manipulating solar energy and thermal management. In particular, human hair is used in this article to highlight the optothermal properties of bio-inspired structures.

1,3-Bis(6-methyl-pyridin-2-yl)-1H-imidazol-3-ium hexa-fluoro-phosphate.

In the title salt, C17H19N4 (+)·PF6 (-), the two pyridine rings of the cation are inclined to one another by 15.89 (8)°, and inclined to the imidazole ring by 65.05 (10) and 64.