{"id":226981,"date":"2025-12-12T07:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-window-insulation-blocks-heat-but-not-your-view"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:06:56","slug":"new-window-insulation-blocks-heat-but-not-your-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-window-insulation-blocks-heat-but-not-your-view","title":{"rendered":"New window insulation blocks heat, but not your view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-window-insulation-blocks-heat-but-not-your-view2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have designed a new material for insulating windows that could improve the energy efficiency of buildings worldwide\u2014and it works a bit like a high-tech version of Bubble Wrap.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s material, called Mesoporous Optically Clear Heat Insulator (MOCHI), comes in large slabs or thin sheets that can be applied to the inside of any window. So far, the team only makes the material in the lab, and it\u2019s not available for consumers. But the researchers say MOCHI is long-lasting and is almost completely transparent.<\/p>\n<p>That means it won\u2019t disrupt your view, unlike many insulating materials on the market today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have designed a new material for insulating windows that could improve the energy efficiency of buildings worldwide\u2014and it works a bit like a high-tech version of Bubble Wrap. The team\u2019s material, called Mesoporous Optically Clear Heat Insulator (MOCHI), comes in large slabs or thin sheets that can be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226981","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=226981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}