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Brightlands Materials Center Brightlands Materials Center
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The world is changing rapidly. Major challenges in the fields of energy, mobility, health and living are ahead of us. Brightlands Materials Center offers its scientific excellence and its innovation power to meet these global challenges. Especially sustainable and circular materials can tackle global energy needs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase recycling of materials. In this podcast series we will share some of our research and development highlights with you. We will tell you more about our innovative technologies and their impact on society.Brightlands Materials Center is a joint initiative of TNO and the Province of Limburg.
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#4 Q&A Smart Window Coating
We received a lot of questions concerning our recent development, our smart thermochromic window coating. In this Podcast Daniel Mann answers these questions.
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#3 The construction market needs to change!
In this Podcast Raymond Veugelers explains why the construction market needs to change.
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#2 Our thermochromic smart window outperforms all other energy efficient glazing
In this Podcast Astrid will be talking to Daniel about his recently published building energy simulation study. This study shows that the thermochromic smart window outperforms all other glazing systems in all intermediate climates, such as the Netherlands, and can lead to annual cost savings of up to 638 euro per household.
Daniel Mann is Scientist at Brightlands Materials Center and TNO and Astrid Verberne is Community Manager at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus. -
#1 Our thermochromic smart window
Daniel Mann, Scientist at Brightlands Materials Center and TNO, developed, together with his team, a thermochromic smart window. This smart window autonomously changes its solar heat gain depending on the glazing temperature. It enables using solar heat for heating a building in cold conditions and it shuts out solar heat in warm conditions, to increase comfort and reduce cooling demand. #energyreduction #CO2emission #smartwindow