A new super-white color of paint is so bright you might just need shades. Developed by scientists at Indiana’s Purdue University, the new whitest white acrylic paint reflects 95.5 percent of ...

In 2020, scientists at Purdue University developed a new super-white acrylic paint that reflects 95.5 percent of sunlight. Since then, they’ve made it even whiter, with a new formula that has ...

Coating buildings with this paint may one day cool them off enough to reduce the need for air conditioning, the researchers say. In October, the team created an ultra-white paint that pushed limits on ...

The paint made its way into the Guinness World Records book as the whitest ever created. The ultra-white acrylic paint reflected 98.1% of solar radiation while also emitting infrared heat ...

Now, thanks to a team of scientists, we have the world’s whitest white—a reflective ... With a common acrylic base, it can be painted or even sprayed on like any other paint.

[KB9ENS] read about a type of ultra-white ... cooling paint in the research is essentially a whole lot of different particle sizes of barium sulfate (BaSO₄) mixed into an acrylic binder.

Traditionally, a type of white paint called gypsum, containing calcium sulfate (CaSO₄), is used to cover such buildings. A new study suggests that an alternative paint containing barium sulfate ...