Coatings for Energy Efficient Buildings
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Engineering for Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 3048
Special Issue Editors
Interests: visible light communication; LiFi; color converters; optical antennas; light-emitting diodes (LEDs); photodetectors
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Interests: New nanoscale materials for electronics, energy conversion, catalysis, and electrocatalysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There has been an alarming increase in atmospheric CO2 content recently, mainly due to the use of fossil fuels for energy generation. While a significant portion of this CO2 is associated with the transport sector, the building sector also accounts for a large portion of energy use. For example, buidlings are consuming 40% of the total world’s energy and are contributing to 30% CO2 emission. This is expected to further increase in the coming years due to further growth in population and the building sector. Therefore, there is an urgent requirement to adopt designs which improve energy efficiency of buildings. This can be done by using renewable energy sources for power generation for the building sector, replacing the conventional building materials with photovoltaic materials or coating the windows to improve its heat transmitance and insulation efficiency as well as integrating emerging energy harvesting technologies such as triboelectricity. In this Special Issue, we are inviting papers related to coatings for energy efficient buildings.
In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs);
- Thermochromic and electrochromic coating for smart windows;
- Smart lighting for buildings;
- Coatings for energy harvesting (triboelectricity, thermoelectricity, piezoelectricity).
Dr. Tariq Sajjad
Dr. Imalka Jayawardena
Dr. Babar Shumaila
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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