Dancing Particles Help Enhance Smart Windows
ScienceDaily reports “life in the nano lane is fast and just got faster.”
Chinese researchers have advanced nanoscale understanding through development of a novel way to see nano-particles that “correlates the atomic-scale structure with physical and chemical properties.”
Looking that deep is “where processes are driven by a dance of particles such as atoms and ions one-billionth of a meter in size.”
The work’s potential applications range from enhanced smart windows in devices based on electrochromic technology that change tint when an electrical field is applied to a window surface, to changing its opacity in response to voltage, and new ways for devices for managing energy, information and the environment.
The paper, Transmission electron microscope (TEM) technique reveals atomic movements useful for next-generation devices, has been published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, from American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing.
