CNN

This ultra-white paint could cool buildings, cutting the need for air conditioning

Scientists have developed a light-reflecting “ultra-white” paint, which they say could negate the need for air conditioning and even reduce carbon emissions, if used on a mass scale. The paint, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Ultra-White Paint May Someday Replace Air Conditioning

Xiulin Ruan, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering, holds up his lab’s sample of the whitest paint on record. Purdue University/Jared Pike A new coat of paint is an easy way to ...
Architectural Digest

A Newly-Invented White Paint Might Make Air Conditioning Obsolete

A paint in a shade that’s as white as white gets, and it’s also good for the environment? It’s a novel idea that recently came to life in a lab at Purdue University. The world’s whitest paint—as it’s ...
The Indianapolis Star

Purdue creates the whitest white paint that could eliminate need for air conditioning

A new paint developed by researchers at Purdue University is the coolest — literally. When Xiulin Ruan, a professor of mechanical engineering at the school, and his graduate students began working on ...
KTVU

Ultra-white paint could reduce need for AC, Purdue researchers say

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Engineers at Purdue University say they have created the whitest paint yet, and it could reduce the need for air conditioning and curb global warming. Researchers said surfaces ...