Thermochromic energy efficient windows: Fundamentals, recent advances, and perspectives

Z Zhang, L Zhang, Y Zhou, Y Cui, Z Chen, Y Liu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Thermochromic energy efficient windows represent an important protocol technology for
advanced architectural windows with energy-saving capabilities through the intelligent …

Micro‐nano porous structure for efficient daytime radiative sky cooling

J Liu, H Tang, C Jiang, S Wu, L Ye… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the aggravation of global warming and extreme weather, cooling demand has
witnessed a continuous increase and is expected to increase tenfold by 2050. Radiative sky …

Scalable thermochromic smart windows with passive radiative cooling regulation

S Wang, T Jiang, Y Meng, R Yang, G Tan, Y Long - Science, 2021 - science.org
Radiative cooling materials spontaneously radiate long-wave infrared (LWIR) to the cold
outer space, providing cooling power that is preferred in hot seasons. Radiative cooling has …

Temperature-adaptive radiative coating for all-season household thermal regulation

K Tang, K Dong, J Li, MP Gordon, FG Reichertz, H Kim… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The sky is a natural heat sink that has been extensively used for passive radiative cooling of
households. A lot of focus has been on maximizing the radiative cooling power of roof …

All-weather thermochromic windows for synchronous solar and thermal radiation regulation

C Lin, J Hur, CYH Chao, G Liu, S Yao, W Li… - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Adaptive control of solar and thermal radiation through windows is of pivotal importance for
building energy saving. However, such synchronous passive regulations are challenging to …

Active optical metasurfaces: comprehensive review on physics, mechanisms, and prospective applications

J Yang, S Gurung, S Bej, P Ni… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness hold considerable promise for future
advances in fundamental optics and novel optical applications due to their unprecedented …

Plasmonic semiconductors: materials, tunability and applications

Y Guo, Z Xu, AG Curto, YJ Zeng… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Semiconductor plasmonics has become a frontier for light manipulation beyond the
diffraction limit, offering a broader spectral range and higher flexibility of plasmon …

Dynamic radiation regulations for thermal comfort

H Zhai, D Fan, Q Li - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermal comfort has a substantial implication for human health. Achieving thermal comfort
requires not only thermal regulation of the building's macroenvironment, but also personal …

Achieving broadband absorption and polarization conversion with a vanadium dioxide metasurface in the same terahertz frequencies

Z Song, J Zhang - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We present the bifunctional design of a broadband absorber and a broadband polarization
converter based on a switchable metasurface through the insulator-to-metal phase transition …

Recent progress in reconfigurable and intelligent metasurfaces: A comprehensive review of tuning mechanisms, hardware designs, and applications

Y Saifullah, Y He, A Boag, GM Yang, F Xu - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intelligent metasurfaces have gained significant importance in recent years due to their
ability to dynamically manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves. Their multifunctional …