When it’s hot outside, you want to get some relief when you walk inside your home. Window treatments and landscaping choices may only do so much to cut down on the heat coming into your home during the hot summer months. At some point, the sun is still going to hit your windows and begin
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The explosion in “smart” technology have drastically changed the 21st century. From smart phones to smart cars, smart windows have recently came into the market with the potential to significantly reduce energy consumption and more. Switchable glazing technology in smart windows allows windows to change properties such as shading coefficients or visible transmittance in response
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Smart phones, smart cars and now smart windows. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California have developed a new material, called nanocrystals, to make ordinary windows smarter. Smart windows are more energy-efficient than its counterparts as the nanocrystals fused into the glass can transform the composition of the sunlight, such
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