Observed arrival · 2026-10-05
Phys.io’s radiative-cooling lab
An autonomous multi-agent research project tests whether a short, inexpensive radiative-cooling coating can meet a benchmark using fewer simulations.
- For
- Researchers testing AI-assisted materials discovery
- Worth noticing
- The page says its current best four-layer design came from a heuristic baseline, not the agent lab.
Field notes
The simulator check compares a rebuilt Stanford stack against published solar reflectance, then discloses a large cooling-power gap and attributes it to a harsher analytic sky. The page therefore says comparisons should be simulated against simulated, rather than treating the published rooftop result as directly comparable. Its displayed four-layer candidate is from an expert-heuristic baseline; the agent run and proposed outdoor measurement are still ahead.
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