Intelligent Coatings for Energy-Efficient Glazing (ICE Glazing)

Completed

Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial)

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Chemistry)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Architecture and the Built Environment)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor G Sankar
Chemistry
University College London

Standard

EPSRC

01 October 2014

30 December 2017

39 months

£435,724

Materials sciences

London

NC : Engineering

Professor G Sankar, Chemistry, University College London

Professor ZX Guo, Chemistry, University College London
Dr R G Palgrave, Chemistry, University College London
Professor IP Parkin, Chemistry, University College London

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

09/12/14