US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK on Jan. 28 for "Scalable method of fabricating structured polymers for passive daytime radiative cooling and other applications" (American, Bangladeshi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,146, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York).

"Scalable method of fabricating structured polymers for passive daytime radiative cooling and other applications" was invented by Jyotirmoy Mandal (Chittagong, Bangladesh), Yuan Yang (New York) and Nanfang Yu (Fort Lee, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structured material is provided that includes a substrate and a porous structured polymer layer disposed thereon. The porous structured polymer layer includes a plurality of voids, and has a high hemispherical reflectance a high a hemispherical thermal emittance. The str...