News tagged with electrochromic

Smart Windows: Energy Efficiency with a View

(PhysOrg.com) -- Buildings consume 40 percent of our nation's energy. NREL is testing and researching electrochromic windows that could knock that back significantly.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Electrofluidic Display Technology puts electronic book readers ahead by a wide margin

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thinking about getting an e-reader but not sure if you like reading the dim screen? An international collaboration of the University of Cincinnati, Sun Chemical, Polymer Vision and Gamma Dynamics ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 2




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How energy analysis can create more bang for the energy research buck

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are working on a wide variety of clean energy technologies—from biofuels to batteries to solar energy—but now these disparate efforts ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Understanding tungsten migration blazes trail for nano electronic device development

Trios of tungsten atoms are greatly influenced in their migration across the wilds of a tiny particle by the shape of the particle, according to a team of experts, including Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Dr. Fei ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Get the light, beat the heat: Researchers develop new infrared coating for windows

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have unveiled a semiconductor nanocrystal coating material capable of controlling heat from ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers demonstrate an electrochromic nanoplasmonic optical switch

In a recent article in Nano Letters, CNST researchers describe a new high-contrast, low operating-voltage, electrochemical optical switch that uses a volume of active dye orders-of-magnitude smaller than that of conventional electr ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A better way to photo gray: New technology allows lenses to change color rapidly

A University of Connecticut scientist has perfected a method for creating quick-changing, variable colors in films and displays, such as sunglasses, that could lead to the next hot fashion accessory.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough e-display means electronics with high speed, high readability and low power usage

Today's Oct. 4 issue of the high-impact journal, Applied Physics Letters, contains a new electrofluidics design from the University of Cincinnati and start-up company Gamma Dynamics that promises to dramat ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Key advance toward 'micro-spacecraft'

Fleets of inexpensive, pint-sized spacecraft are one giant leap closer to lift off. Researchers here at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society describe a new, razor thin temperature-regulating ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 3

NASA MidSTAR-1 successful technologies may be revolutionary

Two new technologies launched onboard a U.S. Naval Academy satellite called MidSTAR-1 have proven successful in their tests in space. One technology is a sensor that can check for harmful chemicals and the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

'Smart' sunglasses feature lenses that change color on demand

Get ready for the coolest, most colorful shades on the planet: Chemists at the University of Washington in Seattle say they are developing ‘smart’ sunglasses that will allow the wearer to instantly change the ...

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created Mar 27, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Wafer-Thin Color Displays for Packaging

Color displays may one day be used practically everywhere. And this would be possible even where it’s unprofitable today for cost reasons, such as on food cartons, medicine packaging or admission tickets. At ...

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created Oct 07, 2005 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (30) | comments 0


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