“Transparent Intelligence” for Sustainable DevelopmentShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Transparent materials are essential in everyone’s life. They enable daylight to reach the interior of buildings, thereby contributing to both our physical and mental well-being; they are the primary component for communication via optical fibers and a key component in electronic devices such as protective cover and/or dielectric material; and they enable clean energy production through solar panels or algae reactors by acting as protective and light transmitting barriers. Adding functions to transparent materials in an intelligent way creates further opportunities to use and enhance the beneficial impacts of transparency. The concept Transparent Intelligence covers transparent materials and products with integral intelligent functions – passive, active or interactive. By using Transparent Intelligence it is possible to embrace many of the societal challenges that we are facing today. The concept can be divided into five broad industrial sectors: Built Environment, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Solar Energy, Mobility, and Materials. A perspective on how Transparent Intelligence can improve the sustainable development of our world will be presented, using examples of electrochromic windows for energy-efficient buildings, photocatalytic coatings for improved indoor air quality, transparent conductive coatings for antennas, bandpass filters for mobile phone indoor coverage, UV down-converting components for efficient solar energy, hygienic surfaces for infection mitigation on electronic devices, printed electronics for sustainable glass packaging, and IR-reflecting coatings for fire safety.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018.
National Category
Materials Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-34106OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-34106DiVA, id: diva2:1232276
Conference
15th International Conference on the Physics of Non-Crystalline Solids (PNCS) and European Society of Glass Science and Technology Conference (ESG, Saint Malo, France
Projects
Smart Housing Småland
Funder
Vinnova, 2016-04218
Note
Funding: Vinnova 2016-04218
2018-07-112018-07-112023-05-25Bibliographically approved