Growing panes: : will smart glass stimulate mineral demand?

• Autores: Cameron Perks
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 602, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Mayo - Junio)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • the first implementation of smart-glass technologies was made in 1982 by Gentex, when it introduced the world’s first automatically dimming rear-view mirrors for cars. [...]while it has not made its way into my own car windows, popular magazine New Scientist reported in 1989 that General Motors had filed a European patent application (No304 198) for “smart windows which automatically control the transmission of light and heat,” made of glass which “darkens and bleaches when an electric current is fed through it from [a] light sensor and control circuit.” Smart glass benefits A study published in 2017 by Piers MacNaughton and his multidisciplinary team at Harvard University in the United States found that “improved indoor environmental quality is associated with better health outcomes,” and that workers from “green certified buildings” scored significantly “higher on cognitive function tests - controlling for annual earnings, job category and level of schooling - and had 30% fewer sick-building symptoms than those in non-certified buildings.” Raw materials supplies So how will these trends affect raw material supplies? Since the innovation in smart glass is in the thin metal-oxide layer within the glass, it might be logical to conclude that the demand for some metals is likely to rise.