Slashdot Mirror
New Metallic Glass Creates Potential For Smart Windows
frank249 writes: A B.C. engineering lab has created metal-coated glass that transmits up to 10 per cent more light than conventional glass and opens the door to windows that function as electronics. The most immediate use of the technology is to create windows that can be programmed to absorb or reflect heat, depending on the needs of a building's occupants. Adding electronic control to windows will allow you to change the amount of light and heat passing through to more effectively use the energy provided by the sun naturally, Lead investigator Kenneth Chau credit films like Iron Man or Star Trek with providing them inspiration. "There is a dream that we can make glass smarter," he said. "These films give us concepts to strive for; the hard work is uncovering the science to make it happen." All those hours spent watching Star Trek are now starting to look like a "pretty good investment," he said. The results were published this week in the journal Scientific Reports.
"opens the door to windows" ?
No thanks. I'd prefer my phone have an occasional chance of picking up a signal instead.
Funny, Democrats are the ones murdering them...
Great way to detect incoming radio signals and beams...and even project their path...or monitor the signal...
traffic
And scene.
I don't care, I am a Linux user.
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
and brainwashing them to be dependent spineless little victims.
Given that normal (one-pane) glas has a transmittance of about 90% that would mean there was basically no reflection or absorption left and nearly all light would have to pass undisturbed. Quite some claim which I cannot find justified by the paper where the closest thing to glass I can find is Silicion Nitride (which apparently starts with only 80% transmittance) and even for that they only show a 6% increase and only postulate that 10% (for silicon nitride) might be theoretically possible.
Obviously another case of journalists hyping science results (without even switching on their own brain).
Can it be used to make nuclear wessels?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Transparent Aluminum!
At least they also invented the wheel.
Granted, it's a stone wheel with foot pegs, but you have to start somewhere.
From TFA "...sprayed silver atoms in a vacuum to create a layer of metal on glass just a few billionths of a metre thick..."
Just say a few nanometers thick and be done with it -- or go fill tilt and say "a few quintillionths of a kilometer thick".
I'm not claiming that the journalists got it right, but there is such a thing as an anti-reflective coating. It's routinely put on glasses to reduce reflections.
At least on the face of it, it's possible that the metallic glass can form an anti-reflective coating on the windows.
Reducing reflections isn't hard at all, in fact, it's done routinely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
--PM
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Fucking American idiots.
It's not "metallic glass," which describes (or should) a metal that's cooled fast enough not to be able to form a crystalline structure -- see also "metal ceramics." It's "metallized glass," which is the correct description of putting a layer of something on top of glass.
I also find it hard to believe that the quoted researcher said that glass is a crystal, since it isn't.
https://app.box.com/WitthoftResume Code: https://github.com/cellocgw
“Glass is a crystalline structure that is fairly transparent, but not completely, you can still see it."
Um... noooo, glass is a glass, denoted by its lack of a crystalline structure unless you're talking about devitrified glass, which is typically too weak to use in any practical application.
Screw the transparent aluminum. I want the software that allowed Scottie to type madly for about 14 seconds and completely define an entirely new molecular structure AND the means to manufacture it.
Terrorists are the ones murdering them.
I mean, making Windows smart.
If only someone would get around to inventing Slow Glass. Then we could have the sunlight coming in our houses after dark, warming the house (in cold weather) when it needs it the most. Or with a sufficient thickness of Slow Glass, we could have the summer sunlight coming in during the winter.
If you haven't heard of Slow Glass, try searching for the subject line.
Synthetic Aluminum ? :)
Linkedin http://in.linkedin.com/in/robinsaikatchatterjee
All those hours watching Star Trek the Voyage home ?
http://www.startrek.com/article/star-treks-transparent-aluminum-a-near-reality
Linkedin http://in.linkedin.com/in/robinsaikatchatterjee
Screw the transparent aluminum. I want the software that allowed Scottie to type madly for about 14 seconds and completely define an entirely new molecular structure AND the means to manufacture it.
And, it ran on the computers of the time!
But I assumed, when I saw it, that he just called up a previously stored document...