This book discusses nocturnal cooling technologies for building applications. Exploiting the
natural environment as a renewable and sustainable resource has become a significant strategy
for passive energy saving in buildings and has led to growing interest in the use of passive
radiative cooling based on nighttime (nocturnal) and daytime (diurnal) operating periods. Of
these nocturnal cooling is more promising since diurnal cooling is hard to achieve due to the
solar radiation effect. As such this book provides a comprehensive overview of nocturnal
cooling for building applications including a definition concepts and principles materials
and devices and cooling systems and configurations.
