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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