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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 9, 2018
Summary Sentence:
Transparent wood composites have high strength, toughness, thermal insulation, and excellent transmissivity, and offer a route to replace glass for diffusely transmitting windows.
Full Summary:
Transparent wood composites have high strength, toughness, thermal insulation, and excellent transmissivity, and offer a route to replace glass for diffusely transmitting windows. STAMI-GTPN and -COPE Professor John Reynolds' group has used conjugated-polymer-based electrochromic materials and transparent wood to create devices that switch on-demand. The devices exhibit a vibrant magenta-to-clear color change that results from a remarkably colorless bleached state. Published in Chemistry and Sustainability (ChemSusChem).
Switchable Transparent Wood Window
John Reynolds and Brian Schmatz in Reynolds' labTransparent wood composites have high strength, toughness, thermal insulation, and excellent transmissivity, and offer a route to replace glass for diffusely transmitting windows. STAMI-GTPN and -COPE Professor John Reynolds' group has used conjugated-polymer-based electrochromic materials (poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS)) and transparent wood to create devices that switch on-demand. The devices exhibit a vibrant magenta-to-clear color change that results from a remarkably colorless bleached state. Device processing using high-throughput methods highlight the opportunity to fabricate mechanically robust, energy-efficient smart windows on a large scale using this technology.
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