Journal of Inorganic Materials ›› 2021, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (2): 115-127.DOI: 10.15541/jim20200412

Special Issue: 电致变色材料与器件 功能材料论文精选(2021) 【虚拟专辑】电致变色与热致变色材料 电致变色专栏2021

• TOPLCAL SECTION: Electrochromic Materials and Devices (Contributing Editor: DIAO Xungang, WANG Jinmin) • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Multi-functional Electrochromic Devices: Integration Strategies Based on Multiple and Single Devices

FAN Hongwei1(), LI Kerui1,2(), HOU Chengyi1, ZHANG Qinghong3, LI Yaogang3, WANG Hongzhi1()   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
    2. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 1175853
    3. Engineering Research Center of Advanced Glasses Manufacturing Technology, Ministry of Education, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
  • Received:2020-07-23 Revised:2020-10-06 Published:2021-02-20 Online:2020-11-05
  • About author:FAN Hongwei (1992–),female,PhD candidate.E-mail:fhw305@126.com
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(51672043);National Natural Science Foundation of China(51972054);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(CUSF-DH-D-2018006);Science and Technology Project of Guangdong Province(2016B090932003)

Abstract:

Electrochromism is the phenomenon of reversible color/optical change of materials induced by redox reactions under an applied electric field. Since electrochromism was first introduced by Platt in 1961, electrochromic (EC) technology continues to develope due to its advantages of multiple colors energy saving and controllability, and was applied in many fields, for example, smart windows, displays, anti-dazzling rear view mirrors, etc. Recently, with the rapid development of optoelectronic and photoelectric technologies, highly integrated electronic devices attracted extensive interests, and the EC technology is developed towards functionalization and intellectualization. For example, self-powered EC devices (ECDs) were fabricated through integrating with the green energy technology, which further reduced the building energy consumption. Because of the visualization of the EC phenomena by naked eyes, the signal reading became more convenient for the sensors integrated with ECDs. In addition, because of similar device structure, electrochemical principles, active components with other functional devices, a lot of multifunctional EC technologies were explored based on single device, facilitating applications of ECDs in EC infrared control, EC energy storage, and EC actuation. In light of the recent emerging progress of EC technology, we reviewed multi-functional EC systems based on the integration of multiple devices and single device, respectively, including self-powered ECDs, EC sensors, infrared ECDs, and EC energy storage devices, etc. The integration modes, structure design and performance optimization were also summarized for different types of the multi-functional ECDs. At last, we introduced the challenges and potential pathway of multi-functional EC integration in the future.

Key words: electrochromism, multi-functional applications, multi-device integration, single device integration, review

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