A new product developed by two ASU students is being called sunscreen for buildings. It’s a new type of roof coating that essentially freezes and unfreezes during the day.
Monday, Nov. 18, was a nice day in Phoenix with temperatures in the 60s – but on the roof, it heats up, even on a day like this.
These ASU grads have created a product already being used on commercial buildings in the Southwest that they believe will help roofs last a decade longer and keep our buildings much cooler.
“Basecoat, topcoat, it’s making it seamless,” Matthew Aguayo said, explaining a new roof coating unlike any other.
He and Aashay Arora spend hours at Arizona State University offices together daily testing and retesting their coating. They developed it as doctorate students and started the company EnKoat after they graduated.
“We didn’t want to leave all that research behind us and go work in corporate, so we were like, how can we use this technology and make the biggest impact?” Arora said.
The product looks like blue goo, and that’s the magic of it. Inside it are millions of particles they’ve developed at ASU that they say act like ice packs.
FOX 10’s Steve Nielsen wanted to learn more about the team making huge waves in the roofing industry.
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