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Nano Research 2023, 16(10): 12165-12172 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5600-7
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Oxygen-deficient tungsten oxide nanoflowers for dynamically tunable near-infrared light transmittance of smart windows

Show Author's Information Ya Huang,§,  Baoshun Wang,§,  Pei Lyu,  Siming Zhao,  Xueke Wu,  Shiliang Zhang,  Run Li,  Qinyuan Jiang,  Fei Wang,  Yanlong Zhao,  Rufan Zhang( )
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

§ Ya Huang and Baoshun Wang contributed equally to this work.

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infrared, tungsten oxide, electrochromic, dual-band, smart window
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Huang Y, Wang B, Lyu P, et al. Oxygen-deficient tungsten oxide nanoflowers for dynamically tunable near-infrared light transmittance of smart windows. Nano Research, 2023, 16(10): 12165-12172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5600-7
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Electrochromic smart windows have attracted much attention in energy-saving buildings because of their ability to selectively modulate visible (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR) light transmittance. As is known, the NIR region accounts for about 50% of the total solar radiation. Therefore, reducing the NIR transmittance of windows will play a crucial role in reducing the energy consumption of buildings. However, for most of the reported electrochromic materials (ECMs)-based windows, it remains a long-lasting challenge about how to achieve a low NIR transmittance during the past decades. In this work, we synthesize oxygen-deficient tungsten oxide (WO3−x) nanoflowers (NFs) by a simple and efficient method that is facile for their mass production. The WO3−x NFs exhibit low NIR transmittance of only 4.11%, 0.60%, and 0.19% at 1200, 1600, and 1800 nm, respectively, due to the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effect. Besides, the WO3−x NFs exhibit an excellent dual-band modulating ability for both VIS and NIR light. They are able to operate in three distinct modes, including a bright mode, a cool mode, and a dark mode. Moreover, the WO3−x NFs exhibit a fast bleaching/coloring time (1.54/6.67 s), and excellent cycling stability (97.75% of capacity retention after 4000 s).


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Oxygen-deficient tungsten oxide nanoflowers for dynamically tunable near-infrared light transmittance of smart windows

Show Author's information Ya Huang,§, Baoshun Wang,§, Pei Lyu, Siming Zhao, Xueke Wu, Shiliang Zhang, Run Li, Qinyuan Jiang, Fei Wang, Yanlong Zhao, Rufan Zhang( )
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

§ Ya Huang and Baoshun Wang contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Electrochromic smart windows have attracted much attention in energy-saving buildings because of their ability to selectively modulate visible (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR) light transmittance. As is known, the NIR region accounts for about 50% of the total solar radiation. Therefore, reducing the NIR transmittance of windows will play a crucial role in reducing the energy consumption of buildings. However, for most of the reported electrochromic materials (ECMs)-based windows, it remains a long-lasting challenge about how to achieve a low NIR transmittance during the past decades. In this work, we synthesize oxygen-deficient tungsten oxide (WO3−x) nanoflowers (NFs) by a simple and efficient method that is facile for their mass production. The WO3−x NFs exhibit low NIR transmittance of only 4.11%, 0.60%, and 0.19% at 1200, 1600, and 1800 nm, respectively, due to the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effect. Besides, the WO3−x NFs exhibit an excellent dual-band modulating ability for both VIS and NIR light. They are able to operate in three distinct modes, including a bright mode, a cool mode, and a dark mode. Moreover, the WO3−x NFs exhibit a fast bleaching/coloring time (1.54/6.67 s), and excellent cycling stability (97.75% of capacity retention after 4000 s).

Keywords: infrared, tungsten oxide, electrochromic, dual-band, smart window

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Received: 16 January 2023
Revised: 13 February 2023
Accepted: 21 February 2023
Published: 26 March 2023
Issue date: October 2023

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This work was supported by the Tsinghua-Toyota Joint Research Fund, the National Key Research Program (Nos. 2020YFA0210702 and 2020YFC2201103), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51872156 and 22075163), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project (No. 2022M721808).

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