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A Griffith University researcher will lead a $1 million research project into a new kind of low-cost, energy-saving ‘smart window’.
Professor Huijun Zhao, director of Griffith’s Centre for Clean Environment and Energy, has been awarded $513,210 from the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Projects scheme to develop the window that contains a glass that is able to change its colour and the amount of light or heat it transmits.
With substantial cash and in-kind support leveraged from partner organisation Confirmation Australia Pty Ltd, Professor Zhao and his team will develop low-cost and scalable synthesis of functional nanomaterials that make smart windows work.
Professor Zhao in the lab. Credit: Fotomedia.
Professor Zhao said windows played an important role in the energy efficiency of offices, schools and homes, and the new smart windows promised significant energy savings by reducing reliance on air conditioning, heating and artificial lighting.
“Besides residential buildings, this is particularly important for office buildings, hotels, and schools where the energy consumption

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Professor Ned Pankhurst – Griffith University Gold Coast Head, Kristina Clonan, Rowan Crothers (who was awarded a scholarship in 2016), Ali McCowen, Narasimhan Ravi and GOLDOC CEO Mark Peters.
When Sharath Achanta became the first Indian to win a table tennis gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, an eight-year-old countryman was inspired while watching on television in southern India.
From that historic day, table tennis would be a centrepiece in the young life of Narasimhan Ravi who would go on to compete at national level himself under the tutelage of leading Russian and Chinese coaches.
A haul of 78 trophies and 45 medals from his pursuits in table tennis, badminton and cross-country running takes pride of place in the Chennai home of the 19-year old also known as Naz.
His commitment to sport and education is embodied in a school routine which had him rising for school at 3.30am each morning for

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A world-first ranking of the strength of whistleblowing processes across Australia’s business and government sectors has been released.
The results from 634 organisations across 18 industry groups and public sectors provide the first benchmarks for enabling organisations to assess strengths and weaknesses in their whistleblowing processes, as part of the Integrity@WERQ phase of the groundbreaking Whistling While They Work 2 research project.
Project leader Professor A J Brown, from Griffith University’s Centre for Governance and Public Policy, said the results vividly show the extent of challenges faced by business in trying to improve their whistleblowing and integrity regimes, and the imperatives for better standards and guidance.
“It’s apparent many private and not-for-profit companies are making concerted efforts to establish workable whistleblowing practices, and now we can see clearly, who’s making progress as well as the major tasks ahead for all – including many governments.”
Focusing on five key areas in the whistleblowing process: incident

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