The world’s whitest paint previously required a layer 0.4 millimeters thick to achieve sub-ambient radiant cooling. A new thinner, lighter formulation can work just as well at just 0.15 ...

While the paint is officially the world’s whitest, it isn’t blindingly so because it scatters light, Dr. Ruan said. It doesn’t look all that different from white paint from the hardware store.

In 2020, a team of scientists at Purdue University developed the world’s whitest white — a paint color so white it could reflect 98.1% of the sunlight that hits it. That paint formula was ...

The whitest paint in the world has been created in a lab at Purdue University, a paint so white that it could eventually reduce or even eliminate the need for air conditioning, scientists say. The ...

The World’s Whitest Paint Can Now Be Used to Naturally Cool Cars and Planes ... In the Fall of 2020, the team successfully developed a white paint that was able to reflect 95.5% of light, ...

The paint can make surfaces as much as 8 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than ambient air temperatures at midday, and up to 19 degrees cooler at night.