A new optically clear gel insulates windows without clouding views, potentially transforming how buildings save energy year-round.

Scientists have used advanced computing tech and AI to design a clear window coating that could lower the temperature inside buildings, thus saving a whole lot of cooling energy. Cooling accounts for ...

A recent development in window coating technology offers a solution to the age-old problem of excessive heat gain through windows while maintaining a clear view of the surroundings. This innovative ...

Windows welcome light into interior spaces, but they also bring in unwanted heat. A new window coating blocks heat-generating ultraviolet and infrared light and lets through visible light, regardless ...

With many of us spending more and more time indoors, it can be a struggle to get the amount of sunlight our bodies crave. Modern heat-insulating, sun-protection glazing doesn’t help, as it reflects a ...

Cranking up the air conditioner is one way to keep buildings cool, but it guzzles energy. Passive materials can regulate interior temperatures more efficiently, and now scientists in South Korea have ...

Advances in window film, transparent coverings that coat glass, let you get all the beauty of natural daylight, minus the heat, glare and damaging UV rays. (Photo courtesy of iwfa.com.) It could be ...

A new window coating absorbs the sun’s warm near-infrared rays in the winter and reflects them in the summer while keeping the glass transparent (ACS Photonics 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01128) ...

Drafts despite closed windows, fogged-up panes, or a consistently cool room feeling despite heating–many homeowners and ...

CROTHERSVILLE, Ind. – As school districts across the state and country are discussing ways to increase safety and security, a southern Indiana school district is taking steps to make their windows ...

As climate change intensifies summer heat, demand is growing for technologies to cool buildings. Now, researchers report in ACS Energy Letters that they have used advanced computing technology and ...