Journal of Inorganic Materials, Volume. 36, Issue 2, 115(2021)

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

Hongwei FAN1... Kerui LI1,2,*, Chengyi HOU1, Qinghong ZHANG3, Yaogang LI3 and Hongzhi WANG1,* |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 11. State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
  • 22. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 1175853
  • 33. Engineering Research Center of Advanced Glasses Manufacturing Technology, Ministry of Education, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
  • show less

    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.

    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Hongwei FAN, Kerui LI, Chengyi HOU, Qinghong ZHANG, Yaogang LI, Hongzhi WANG. Multi-functional Electrochromic Devices: Integration Strategies Based on Multiple and Single Devices[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2021, 36(2): 115

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Category: TOPLCAL SECTION: Electrochromic Materials and Devices (Contributing Editor: DIAO Xungang, WANG Jinmin)

    Received: Jul. 23, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Nov. 24, 2021

    The Author Email: LI Kerui (kyle.Li1990@outlook.com), WANG Hongzhi (wanghz@dhu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.15541/jim20200412

    Topics