The hydrogel smart windows spontaneously transform from transparent to opaque upon temperature changes. The outdoor solar radiation in summer and indoor thermal radiation in winter are both regulated by the smart window to modulate the building temperature and save energy.Guoqi Chen...
Buildings account for 40% of global energy consumption, while windows are the least energy-efficient part of buildings. Conventional smart windows only regulate solar transmission. For the first time, we developed high thermal energy storage thermo-responsive smart window (HTEST smart window) by trap...
their applications in see-through electronics5,6, imperceptible soft robots7,8, and other optic fields9,10,11,12,13,14,15, such as contact and liquid lens, in vivo optical sensors and fibres for body-contact optics, as well as thermo-, electro-, and humidity-controlled smart windows. Int...
SmartHydrogels undergostrongconformationalchangeswhenonlysmall changesintheenvironmentoccur. 1.Introduction Volumephase transition Chemicalgels:abruptly swelltomanytimesits originalsize--orcollapse intoacompactmass withasmallchangein solventconcentrationor
The nanohydrogels solution exhibited concentration and temperature-dependent ultraviolet absorption and visible light regulation, which had great application potential in smart windows. This study provided a novel preparation method and extended the application of chitosan-based temperature responsive self-...
Li et al. explored designs of light responsive hydrogels and the emerging applications such as controlled drug delivery, smart biointerfaces and self-healing properties [60]. Tomatsu et al. describes the use of light to control the properties of hydrogels through photoresponsive groups, suitable for...
Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics 1 620 K. Chaeyoung et al. for windows, Version 25.0, Armonk, NY, USA). One-way ANOVA was used for comparing group means, followed by Duncan's multiple range test to determine the significance of individual comparisons (p...
Quince Seed Mucilage: A Stimuli-Responsive/Smart Biopolymer Chapter© 2019 Introduction Hydrogels are materials that have a 3-D network structure consisting of polymer or protein chains and could be swollen due to their specific nature (Dodda et al.,2022). They have a wide range of applications...
extended for use in other portable and wearable energy related devices with multifunction. Introduction The newly emerging healable and stretchable electronics (e.g., wearable electronics1and smart electronic textiles2) have recently attracted extensive attention due to their excellent flexible, smart, ...
PNIPAM-based ionic hydrogels for enhanced privacy smart windows and flexible sensor 2024, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects Citation Excerpt : The ionic conductivities of PNSB, PNSP, and PNMT hydrogels were detected to be 0.69, 13.38, and 4.00 mS cm−1, respectivel...