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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Multilayered optofluidics for sustainable buildings.

Raphael Kay, J Alstan Jakubiec, Charlie Katrycz, Benjamin D Hatton

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Raphael KayDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6382-351X
J Alstan JakubiecJohn H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2J5, Canada.
Charlie KatryczDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E4, Canada.
Benjamin D HattonDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8181-1344

Funding

Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) 31799Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 2019-6760Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) CGS-M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Indoor climate control is among the most energy-intensive activities conducted by humans. A building facade that can achieve versatile climate control directly, through independent and multifunctional optical reconfigurations, could significantly reduce this energy footprint, and its development represents a pertinent unmet challenge toward global sustainability. Drawing from optically adaptive multilayer skins within biological organisms, we report a multilayered millifluidic interface for achieving a comprehensive suite of independent optical responses in buildings. We digitally control the flow of aqueous solutions within confined milliscale channels, demonstrating independent command over total transmitted light intensity (95% modulation between 250 and 2,500 nm), near-infrared-selective absorption (70% modulation between 740 and 2,500 nm), and dispersion (scattering). This combinatorial optical tunability enables configurable optimization of the amount, wavelength, and position of transmitted solar radiation within buildings over time, resulting in annual modeled energy reductions of more than 43% over existing technologies. Our scalable "optofluidic" platform, leveraging a versatile range of aqueous chemistries, may represent a general solution for the climate control of buildings.

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active opticsdynamic building facadeenergy efficiencymicrofluidicssmart windows

Identifiers

PMID36716371
PMCPMC9963926

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