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Wood Composite as an Energy Efficient Building Material: Guided Sunlight Transmittance and Effective Thermal Insulation

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Advanced Energy Materials
卷 6, 期 22, 页码 -

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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201601122

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directional scattering; energy efficient building; light management; sunlight harvesting; thermal insulation

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  1. Maryland NanoCenter
  2. AIMLab
  3. Fablab

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Among many other requirements, energy efficient building materials require effective daylight harvesting and thermal insulation to reduce electricity usage and weatherization cost. The most commonly used daylight harvesting material, glass, has limited light management capability and poor thermal insulation. For the first time, transparent wood is introduced as a building material with the following advantages compared with glass: (1) high optical transparency over the visible wavelength range (>85%); (2) broadband optical haze (>95%), which can create a uniform and consistent daylight distribution over the day without glare effect; (3) unique light guiding effect with a large forward to back scattering ratio of 9 for a 0.5 cm thick transparent wood; (4) excellent thermal insulation with a thermal conductivity around 0.32 W m(-1) K-1 along the wood growth direction and 0.15 W m(-1) K-1 in the cross plane, much lower than that of glass (approximate to 1 W m(-1) K-1); (5) high impact energy absorption that eliminates the safety issues often presented by glass; and (6) simple, scalable fabrication with reliable performance. The demonstrated transparent wood composite exhibits great promise as a future building material, especially as a replacement of glass toward energy efficient building with sustainable materials.

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