{"id":76672,"date":"2018-03-08T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/engineers-develop-eco-friendly-smart-glass-panels-that-switch-from-transparent-to-opaque"},"modified":"2018-03-12T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:14:41","slug":"engineers-develop-eco-friendly-smart-glass-panels-that-switch-from-transparent-to-opaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/engineers-develop-eco-friendly-smart-glass-panels-that-switch-from-transparent-to-opaque","title":{"rendered":"Engineers develop eco-friendly smart glass panels that switch from transparent to opaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-develop-eco-friendly-smart-glass-panels-that-switch-from-transparent-to-opaque.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someday we won\u2019t need curtains or blinds on our windows, and we will be able to block out light\u2014or let it in\u2014with just the press of a button. At least that\u2019s what Keith Goossen, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, hopes.<\/p>\n<p>Goossen and Daniel Wolfe, who earned a doctoral degree from UD last year, developed panels that can switch between allowing light in and blocking it out. This \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/smart+glass\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">smart glass<\/a>\u201d technology could be utilized in eco-friendly windows, windshields, roof panes and building envelopes, absorbing light and heat in the winter and reflecting it away in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Although Goossen isn\u2019t the first scientist to make smart <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/glass\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">glass<\/a>, his team\u2019s invention is about one-tenth the price of other versions. It is also more transparent in its transparent state and more reflective in its reflective state than competitors, he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-03-eco-friendly-smart-glass-panels-transparent.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;03-eco-friendly-smart-g...arent.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someday we won\u2019t need curtains or blinds on our windows, and we will be able to block out light\u2014or let it in\u2014with just the press of a button. At least that\u2019s what Keith Goossen, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, hopes. Goossen and Daniel Wolfe, who earned a doctoral [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76672","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76827,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76672\/revisions\/76827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}