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Thermal insulating superhydrophobic composite coating for building thermal management

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Thermal insulating coatings have important potential for energy saving in the field of building thermal management, but they are difficult to apply on a large scale due to the problem of being waterproof and moistureproof. Herein, we design a two-step spray process to fabricate a thermal insulating superhydrophobic composite coating using epoxy resin mixed with hollow glass microsphere as primer coating and fluorine-modified SiO2 nanocoating as a waterproof layer. The composite coating shows durable superhydrophobicity and low thermal conductivity [0.051 W/(m·k)], which is endowed with excellent thermal insulating properties under light and heat, contact heat conduction (− 20 to 70 °C), and boiling water scouring environment. These multiple key properties that have been integrated into our composite film are expected to provide unique advantages for applications in building thermal management.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52371076).

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    Meihui Tang, Lin Su, Zhimeng Zhao, Pengfei Li, Xiaofeng Zhao, Fei Zhou, Yuxiang Li & Shanlin Wang

  2. Center for Precision Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, People’s Republic of China

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Meihui Tang was involved in conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft, writing—review & editing, visualization. Lin Su helped in methodology, writing—review & editing, visualization. Zhimeng Zhao contributed to conceptualization, formal analysis, visualization. Siyu Wu assisted in methodology, formal analysis, writing—review & editing. Pengfei Li helped in conceptualization, methodology. Xiaofeng Zhao contributed to conceptualization, investigation. Fei Zhou was involved in conceptualization, supervision. Yuxiang Li assisted in conceptualization, supervision. Shanlin Wang was involved in conceptualization, methodology, visualization, resources, writing—review & editing, supervision, project administration, funding acquisition.

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Tang, M., Su, L., Zhao, Z. et al. Thermal insulating superhydrophobic composite coating for building thermal management. J Coat Technol Res (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11998-024-00925-4

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