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Synthesis Of Chemically Stable Vo2 Particles Using Green Solvents And Their Application As Smart Coatings, Dicho Zomaya

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Heating and cooling buildings consumes a tremendous amount of energy worldwide, often >50% for Northern climates such as Canada. A major part of this energy is lost through windows. The use of thermochromic windows provides a new intriguing option, in which the window automatically regulates the amount of solar transmission in response to environmental temperature changes. Of the potential thermochromic materials, vanadium dioxide (VO₂) is known to display a fully reversible semiconductor-metal transition (SMT). VO₂ responds thermochromically to environmental temperature changes by changing its crystal structure as a function of temperature. VO₂ is transparent to infrared …