Publications and Other Writing

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Works with Critical Contributions (published and upcoming)

E. Simsek, J. Mandal, A. Raman, L. Pilon.* Dropwise condensation reduces selectivity of sky-facing radiative cooling surfaces. Int. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 198, 123399

J. Mandal,* X. Huang, A. Raman*. Accurately Quantifying Clear-Sky Radiative Cooling Potentials: A Temperature correction to the Transmittance-based approximation. Atmosphere, 12(9), 1195 (2021).

J. Mandal,* J. Brewer, S. Mandal, A. Raman*. Nanostructured Plasmonic Metal Surfaces as Optical Components for Infrared Imaging and Sensing. Posted on arXiv (2021-06-27).

J. Mandal,* S. Mandal, J. Brewer, A. Ramachandran, A. Raman*. Radiative Cooling and Thermoregulation in the Earth’s Glow. Posted on arXiv (2020-06-21).

J. Mandal,* N. Yu, Y. Yang, A. Raman*. Paints as a scalable and effective radiative cooling technology for buildings. Joule, 4, 1-7 (2020).

J. Mandal,† Y. Chen,† C. Tsai, S. Shrestha, N. Yu, Y. Yang. Colored and Paintable Bilayer Coatings with High Solar-infrared Reflectance for Efficient Cooling. Science Advances, 6 (17), eaaz5413 (2020).

J. Mandal, M. Jia, A. Overvig, Y. Fu, E. Che, N. Yu, Y. Yang. Porous Polymers with Switchable Optical Transmittance for Optical and Thermal Regulation. Joule 3, 1-12 (2019).

J. Mandal, Y. Fu, A. Overvig, M. Jia, N. Shi, K. Sun, H. Zhou, X. Xiang, N. Yu, Y. Yang. Hierarchically Porous Polymer Coatings for Highly Efficient Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling. Science 362, 315–319 (2018).

J. Mandal, S. Du, M. Dontigny, K. Zaghib, N. Yu, Y. Yang. Li₄Ti₅O₁₂: A Visible-to-Infrared Broadband and Fast Electrochromic Material for Thermal and Optical Management. Advanced Functional Materials 28 (36), 201802180 (2018).

J. Mandal, D. Wang, A. Overvig, N. Shi, D. Paley, A. Zangiabadi, Q. Cheng, K. Barmak, N. Yu, Y. Yang. Scalable, Low-temperature ‘Dip-and-dry’ Technique to Fabricate Plasmonic Selective Absorber for High-efficiency Solar-thermal Energy Conversion. Advanced Materials 29 (41), 201702156 (2017). Featured on Inside Cover.

Doctoral Dissertation

J. Mandal. Spectrally Selective Designs for Optical and Thermal Management (Columbia University, 2019). DOI: 10.7916/d8-0642-m193.

Papers with significant contributions

J. Xu, J. Mandal, A. Raman.* Broadband Directional Control of Thermal Emission. Science. 372, 393-397.
M. Chen, J. Mandal, Q. Ye, A. Li, B. Xie, Q. Cheng, Y. He, Y. Yang*. A Scalable Dealloying Technique To Create Thermally Stable Plasmonic Nickel Selective Solar Absorbers. ACS Applied Energy Materials 2, 9, 6551-6557 (2019).
N. Shi, C. Tsai, M. Carter, J. Mandal, A. Overvig, M. Sfeir, M. Lu, C. Craig, G. Bernard, Y. Yang, N. Yu. Nanostructured fibers as a versatile photonic platform: radiative cooling and waveguiding through transverse Anderson localization. Light: Science and Applications 7, 36 (2018).
Zhai, P. Xu, M. Ning, Q. Cheng, J. Mandal, Y. Yang. A Flexible Solid Composite Electrolyte with Vertically Aligned and Connected Ion-Conducting Nanoparticles for Lithium Batteries. Nano Letters 17, 3182−3187 (2017).
Shcherbatyuk, P. Talbot, J. Mandal, A. J. Krejci, J. H. Dickerson, and S. Ghosh. Increased photo-stability of quantum dots in segregated bilayer films. Journal of Applied Physics 114, 084305 (2013).