journal article·2025-07

Superhydrophobic, Superoleophobic, Robust and Sprayable Radiative Cooling Nanocomposites via Multifluorination and Multilevel Interfacial Regulation Strategy

Chang Jing, Tiancheng Wang, Junying Zhang, Jiahao Ma, Jue Cheng

Advanced Functional Materials· Volume 35· Issue 30
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Abstract

Abstract Radiative Cooling technology has garnered significant interest owing to its passive cooling capability without energy consumption. However, for long‐term outdoor applications, achieving simultaneous superhydrophobicity, superoleophobicity, excellent thermomechanical properties, robustness, and sprayability remains a significant challenge. This work introduces a multifluorination and multilevel interfacial regulation strategy for fabricating epoxy‐based radiative cooling nanocomposites that exhibit exceptional performance across these critical aspects. In this strategy, tetrafluorophenyl epoxy resin (FEP) exhibits excellent infrared emissivity in the atmospheric window. Hollow halloysite nanotubes (hNTs) and silica are functionalized with perfluorinated and alkylated segments (FhNTs and FSiO2), creating zero‐1D nanofillers with multilevel interfaces to enhance solar reflectivity. The resulting FhNTs40/(FSiO2)10 composite exhibits excellent atmospheric window emissivity (97.53%) and solar reflectivity (96.7%), achieving 12.8 °C of daytime cooling and 1.77 °C of night cooling. Moreover, the fluorinated matrix and nanofillers endow the coating with stable superhydrophobicity, oleophobicity, and self‐cleaning properties, even after rigorous physical and chemical durability tests.
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OpenAlex topics: Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies · Urban Heat Island Mitigation · Building Energy and Comfort Optimization

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Affiliations

Key Laboratory of Carbon Fiber and Functional Polymers Ministry of Education Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P. R. China

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104 USA

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China

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