Thermochromic hydrogels exhibit a smart capacity for regulating solar spectrum transmission,enabling automatically change their transmissivity in response to the ambient temperature change.This has great importance fo...Thermochromic hydrogels exhibit a smart capacity for regulating solar spectrum transmission,enabling automatically change their transmissivity in response to the ambient temperature change.This has great importance for energy conservation purposes.Military and civilian emergency thermochromic applications require rapid visible-light stealth(VLS);however,concurrent smart solar transmission and rapid VLS is yet to be realized.Inspired by squid-skin,we propose a micropatterned thermochromic hydrogel(MTH)to realize the concurrent control of smart solar transmittance and rapid VLS at all-working temperatures.The MTH possesses two optical regulation mechanisms:optical property regulation and optical scattering,controlled by temperature and pressure,respectively.The introduced surface micropattern strategy can arbitrarily switch between normal and diffuse transmission,and the VLS response time is within 1 s compared with previous~180 s.The MTH also has a high solar-transmission regulation range of 61%.Further,the MTH preparation method is scalable and cost-effective.This novel regulation mechanism opens a new pathway towards applications with multifunctional optical requirements.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant 52076064 and52211530089 to F. W.)The Royal Society under (grant IEC\NSFC\211210 to Y.Y.). Global STEM Professorship Scheme sponsored by the Government of HongKong Special Administrative Region, China (to Y. L.)The Fundamental ResearchFunds for the Central Universities (HIT.DZJJ.2023095 to X. Z.).
文摘Thermochromic hydrogels exhibit a smart capacity for regulating solar spectrum transmission,enabling automatically change their transmissivity in response to the ambient temperature change.This has great importance for energy conservation purposes.Military and civilian emergency thermochromic applications require rapid visible-light stealth(VLS);however,concurrent smart solar transmission and rapid VLS is yet to be realized.Inspired by squid-skin,we propose a micropatterned thermochromic hydrogel(MTH)to realize the concurrent control of smart solar transmittance and rapid VLS at all-working temperatures.The MTH possesses two optical regulation mechanisms:optical property regulation and optical scattering,controlled by temperature and pressure,respectively.The introduced surface micropattern strategy can arbitrarily switch between normal and diffuse transmission,and the VLS response time is within 1 s compared with previous~180 s.The MTH also has a high solar-transmission regulation range of 61%.Further,the MTH preparation method is scalable and cost-effective.This novel regulation mechanism opens a new pathway towards applications with multifunctional optical requirements.
