Ford is on a roll filing patents for all sorts of crazy stuff, showing that creativity isn’t dead with traditional carmakers. The latest is a patent for a switchable glass system that takes the ...

(Nanowerk News) The National Research Council, Canada is developing an innovative technology for smart glass with possible applications in sectors such as building, aircraft, automotive and displays.

A project at Swiss facility Empa which aims to develop intelligent windows with optically switchable coatings has secured €3.8million funding from the EU. Researchers from the Winsmart project ...

Affordable switchable windows could improve energy efficiency in buildings and help keep cars cool. Researchers at the University of Delaware have developed prototype windows that switch from ...

Windows that go from see-through to cloudy at the flip of a switch can provide privacy and help buildings stay cool on sunny days. Such smart glass, while expensive, is starting to find its way into ...

Yasusei Yamada (Senior Researcher) and others of Energy Control Thin Film Group have developed a new switchable mirror with a visible transmittance of over 70% in the transparent state. Window glass ...

A new window coating absorbs the sun’s warm near-infrared rays in the winter and reflects them in the summer while keeping the glass transparent (ACS Photonics 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01128) ...

With the demands of sustainability today placing tight restrictions on performance metrics such as how airtight a building is, one of the sacrifices that often has to be made is user control. Windows ...