An international research team led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University,Singapore(NTU Singapore)has developed a material that,when coated on a glass window panel,can effectively self-adapt to heat or cool rooms across different climate zones in the world,helping to cut energy usage.Developed by NTU researchers and reported in the top scientific journal Science,the first-of-its-kind glass automatically responds to changing temperatures by switching between heating and cooling.The self-adaptive glass is developed using layers of vanadium dioxide nanoparticles composite,Poly(methyl methacrylate)(PMMA),and low-em issivity coating to form a unique structure which could modulate heating and cooling simultaneously.The newly developed glass,which has no electrical components,works by exploiting the spectrums of light responsible for heating and cooling.
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