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Silk is a natural metamaterial for self-cooling: An oxymoron?

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Abstract

As light transmittance in silk is suppressed by Anderson localization, its reflectance is drastically enhanced. A further combination with the high emissivity from the biomolecules of silk in infrared radiation results in passive radiative cooling.

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