By A.J. Roan
Metal Tech News
Purdue paints with record-breaking white
Guinness record whitest paint, reflects nearly 100% sunlight Metal Tech News - September 22, 2021
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Xiulin Ruan, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering, and his students have created the whitest paint on record, reflects up to 98.1% of solar radiation.
Out of West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University has earned a Guinness World Record for an unintended side effect to reducing global warming – creating the whitest paint ever.
"When we started this project about seven years ago, we had saving energy and fighting climate change in mind," said Xiulin Ruan, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue.
It was Ruan and a team of graduate stud...
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