Scientists in Hong Kong have demonstrated a new ultra-white ceramic material that can drastically cool buildings by reflecting sunlight and heat at record highs. The beetle-inspired material gets its ability from its nanostructure, stays tough to the elements and should be relatively easy to scale…

Ultra-white ceramic cools buildings with record-high 99.6% reflectivity::undefined

  • schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Those are slick from the added glass powder for reflectivity.

    Who’s putting Teflon on road stripes…?

    • EatYouWell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Huh, I stand corrected. I could have sworn I read an article linked in a discussion about solar panel roads that said Teflon was mixed in the paint to keep the stripes from getting dirty super fast.