Intelligent Coatings for Energy-Efficient Glazing (ICE Glazing)

我们将与英国和中国的领先大学合作，研究和优化节能智能窗户涂料的合成方法。这些涂料主动改变其性能，让最佳数量的光和热进入建筑物，大大减少了加热和冷却所需的能量。供暖和制冷建筑物可以使用一个国家能源需求的很大一部分（>30%），因此这方面的改进提供了真实的好处，并将有助于实现国家和国际碳排放目标。我们将使用各种工业规模的技术来存款二氧化钒薄膜，并使用最先进的设备来沉积该薄膜。我们将进行定量的能源效率建模，以准确预测这些材料在真实的建筑中使用时可能预期的节能效果。

We will form a collaboration between leading UK and China universities to investigate and optimise synthesis methods for energy efficient intelligent window coatings. These coatings actively change their properties to let the optimum amount of light and heat into a building, dramatically reducing the energy required for heating and cooling. Heating and cooling buildings can use a large proportion (>30%) of a nation's energy requirements, so improvements in this area offer real benefits, and will assist meeting national and international carbon emission targets. We will deposit vanadium dioxide films using a variety of industrially scalable techniques, and characterise the films with state of the art apparatus. We will undertake quantitative energy efficiency modelling to accurately predict the energy saving that might be expected when these materials are used in real buildings.