Counterbalancing the Impact of Urban Overheating Using Cool Materials
摘要
Urban overheating is the most documented phenomenon of climatic change seriously affecting human life. Numerous mitigation technologies have been developed and implemented contributing to important temperature decrease in cities. Among them, the development of cool and super cool materials seems to be the most powerful presenting the highest cooling potential. The present article aims to discuss the main impacts of urban overheating on humans, as well as the recent progress related to the development of cool and super cool materials for urban mitigation purposes.