The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) recently announced the first "Innovation China" youth entrepreneurship list results. Dr. Martin ZHU, the founder of i2Cool Ltd, was selected as a representative of an outstanding company in energy-saving and environmental protection. With the " Electricity-free Cooling Technology- Passive Radiative Cooling Technology "project, he was selected for the "Innovation China" Youth Entrepreneurship List - Shenzhen U30.
It is reported that this year's "Innovation China" Youth Entrepreneurship List - Shenzhen U30 is an initiative of CAST to find and select young innovative entrepreneurs under age 35 through innovation and entrepreneurship competitions and other forms. Aiming to build a platform for young people to meet and exchange with the government, society and investment institutions, the event guides young people to carry out innovative and forward-looking entrepreneurial projects and to support and cultivate entrepreneurial teams with high technological content and new business models.
Founder Dr. Martin ZHU
Graduated from the School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong (supervisor: Dr. Edwin TSO), the founder of i2Cool, Dr. Martin ZHU, is devoted to unravelling the fundamental principles of heat transfer, energy conversion and engineered materials. Also, he is committed to combining theory and experimentation and proposing novel solutions for enhancing phase change, air cooling, dehumidification, thermal management, thermal rectification, micro-droplet manipulation and energy-efficient building technologies.
Incubated under the HK Tech 300 programme, Dr Martin ZHU and his team set up i2Cool Limited to commercialise the laboratory-developed electricity-free cooling technology. With self-developed and continuously improved products and a practical long-term strategy, i2Cool Ltd has successfully attracted widespread interest from the community and is committed to contributing to the world's goal of achieving carbon neutrality.
Dr Martin ZHU is believed to work with his team and fully use the young talents exchanging platform provided by CAST to achieve effective matchmaking between industry and capital and other resources and accelerate the implementation of more project-related scientific research results.
i2Cool Limited is a technology start-up incubated by the HK Tech 300 programme of the City University of Hong Kong. Inspired by the skin structure with the self-cooling function of the Saharan desert ant, the team has succeeded in developing the world's leading electricity-free cooling technology.
The core product, iPaint is as easy to use as ordinary paint and can be widely used in buildings, automobiles, storage equipment and outdoor electronic equipment where cooling is required.
Simple applying the iPaint to the roofs and exterior walls of buildings can reflect most of the solar heat (>95% reflectivity) while effectively emitting thermal energy as mid-infrared (>95% emissivity) to the cold universe. Since the atmosphere is transparent to mid-infrared radiation, the heat emitted by the cooler can pass through the atmosphere and be absorbed by the cold universe. No energy or refrigerant is required to achieve "electricity-free cooling".
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