Nanoparticles for Improving Smart-Window Energy Efficiency
Friday, September 7, 2018 - 16:31
in Physics & Chemistry
U.S. buildings leak an estimated 30 percent of their energy through inefficient windows, costing consumers an estimated $42 billion annually. But that could begin to change if efforts by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are successful in commercializing a patented new process for synthesizing vanadium dioxide nanoparticles that makes manufacturing energy-efficient "smart windows" economical.