{"id":222843,"date":"2025-10-03T03:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/silver-nanoring-coating-points-to-self-regulating-smart-windows-without-power-or-tinting"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:22:03","slug":"silver-nanoring-coating-points-to-self-regulating-smart-windows-without-power-or-tinting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/silver-nanoring-coating-points-to-self-regulating-smart-windows-without-power-or-tinting","title":{"rendered":"Silver-nanoring coating points to \u2018self-regulating\u2019 smart windows\u2014without power or tinting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silver-nanoring-coating-points-to-self-regulating-smart-windows-without-power-or-tinting.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Danish research breakthrough could make buildings far more energy-efficient in the future. Researchers from Aarhus University\u2019s Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) have developed a light-responsive hybrid material based on so-called silver nanorings that automatically responds to solar intensity and regulates how much heat penetrates through windows.<\/p>\n<p>The microscopic silver rings increasingly block near-infrared light as sunlight becomes stronger\u2014without making the glass less transparent.<\/p>\n<p>The technology functions without the use of power, sensors, or electronics\u2014and could potentially be applied as a window coating in, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/office+buildings\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">office buildings<\/a> and modern residential buildings where large glass areas are common and heat radiation from the sun can be a challenge. This makes the solution particularly relevant at a time when <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy+consumption\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy consumption<\/a> for cooling exceeds the need for heating in large parts of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Danish research breakthrough could make buildings far more energy-efficient in the future. Researchers from Aarhus University\u2019s Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) have developed a light-responsive hybrid material based on so-called silver nanorings that automatically responds to solar intensity and regulates how much heat penetrates through windows. The microscopic silver rings increasingly block near-infrared light [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}