Energy Saving Electrochromic Polymer Windows with a Highly Transparent Charge-Balancing Layer

Younghoon Kim; Haijin Shin; Minsu Han; Seogjae Seo; Woojae Lee; Jongbeom Na; Chihyun Park; Eunkyoung Kim

doi:10.1002/adfm.201701192

Energy Saving Electrochromic Polymer Windows with a Highly Transparent Charge-Balancing Layer

Younghoon Kim, Haijin Shin, Minsu Han, Seogjae Seo, Woojae Lee, Jongbeom Na, Chihyun Park, Eunkyoung Kim

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Abstract

Highly transparent TiO₂ nanoparticles are explored as a non-electrochromic (non-EC) charge-balancing layer for a high color contrast, bistable electrochromic window (ECW). The TiO₂ nanoparticle (TNP) layer increases the potential at the EC polymer electrode, thereby lowering the working voltage of the ECW. This leads to lower the power consumption of ECWs without loss in the high color contrast (ΔT > 72%) and to remarkably improve the cyclability (ΔT change <1% over 3000 cycles), mainly due to the low overvoltage (<0.1 V) on the electrochromic polymer layer. Furthermore, the ECWs including the non-EC TNP layer show long-term bistability (>2.7 h, 40% increase) and UV stability (ΔT change <1%) to provide a low-power automatic ECW. This finding shows that the charge balanced ECP window has the potential to be used for an energy saving ECW with low-power consumption and will be widely applied in various ECWs as well as electrochemical devices with multiple functions.

Original language	English
Article number	1701192
Journal	Advanced Functional Materials
Volume	27
Issue number	31
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201701192
Publication status	Published - 2017 Aug 18

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Y.K. and H.S. contributed equally to this work. This research was supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, MSIP through the Global Research Lab. (GRL) and by the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare (grant number: HI15C0942).

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© 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

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