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Fabrication of silver-coated wood with enhanced cooling property

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Functional energy-saving materials with coupled cooling effect have become particularly urgent because traditional cooling systems require high industrial energy inputs and high labor costs. Biomass-derived materials are highly desirable for the environment and energy-related applications, but raw biomass materials cannot satisfy cooling demands for more environment and energy-efficient processes. Herein, inspired by the transpiration of natural plants and radiation cooling of metal materials, this study presents the silver nanoparticles–coated wood with a coupled cooling effect for dual-mode cooling. The silver nanoparticles–coated wood with a natural hollow ordered pore structure can achieve the cooling effect by the capillary phenomenon where water absorption and evaporation. The results revealed that silver nanoparticles with high infrared reflectivity were firmly embedded in the surface of the wood by magnetron sputtering, which empowers the wood with high infrared heat dissipation properties. Compared to the bare porous wood, the surface temperatures of silver nanoparticles coated wood were decreased from 34.6–35.8 to 30.3–31.2 °C. In addition, by combining with the evaporative and radiative heat dissipation, the silver-coated wood obtained the coupled cooling effect under simulated solar radiation, which further improves the cooling effect. Owing to the silver coating, the material possesses an excellent antibacterial property which extends durability. Therefore, the tree-inspired water vapor evaporation and radiation cooling show good harmony and can be well combined by the directional structure design of the material. This dual-mode cooling mechanism provides a novel design concept of cooling materials and further promises to benefit the sustainability of society in many aspects, from health to economy.

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This work was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020 M 681740 and 2021T140578).

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    Tao Zhang, Jie sun, Hao Zhou, Yuting Dai, Fengxian Qiu & Dongya Yang

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Tao Zhang: conceptualization, methodology, writing-original draft, writing-review and editing.

Jie Sun: investigation, formal analysis, data curation.

Hao Zhou: investigation, formal analysis, validation, writing-original draft.

Yuting Dai: investigation, formal analysis, validation.

Fengxian Qiu: investigation, formal analysis, validation.

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Zhang, T., sun, J., Zhou, H. et al. Fabrication of silver-coated wood with enhanced cooling property. Biomass Conv. Bioref. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-023-05070-3

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