Smart Glass - technology globally popular enough. Such glasses have a number of advantages over conventional windows. "Smart" glass does not transmit infrared radiation, it will delay the heat in the room in winter and not let the hot summer sun rays inward, ie significantly save energy.
Glasses have the opportunity to be obscured, and to deliver the owners from having further hang blinds or curtains. Furthermore, they can be used as solar batteries.
In Russia and the transparent conductive electrochromic glass supply from abroad, mainly from China. However, a significant disadvantage of the technology on which the functional coating is typically applied to the glass is its high cost of production. For example, one plant for the production of films by vacuum worth about 100 million rubles.
Krasnoyarsk scientists have chosen another way. And the uniqueness of Krasnoyarsk film is the significant reduction of its cost. Method that elected team of inventors is not vacuum, and chemical. In conventional chemical laboratory, using quite ordinary materials and equipment, produce glass Krasnoyarsk no worse than their foreign counterparts.
Authors of the project told:
"Develop mortar production technology ensures the creation of nanoscale materials and organized nanostructures, being a low-cost and does not require a rather complex and cumbersome vacuum equipment"
But while scientists are faced with some difficult technical and organizational plan. For example, at the disposal of the Institute is not only a small fully equipped laboratory, which turns out to produce a small glass.
Equipment that demonstrates graduate student Sergey Podorozhnyak looks outdated decades ago - are installed in the laboratory in the Soviet era.
"Now we wait for another room. There is an agreement with SFU that our project will provide a large laboratory where children can adequately perform developments - shared with the "1-LINE» scientific director Tamara Patrushev. - We still have to solve a lot of problems - to improve the conductivity of the film, away from the windows, "divorce", learn to create flexible solar cells. "
And although the prospects of applying significant innovations (such inexpensive Russian market development is not busy) developers are in no hurry to implement it at home:
"In the current realities to start their own venture to produce smart glass is very difficult - said Nikolai snowballs. - Easier for us to sell the license abroad and earn income from it than to organize serial production in Russia. Cost tens of millions of glassworks. Any businessman will give the money only for specific purposes, taking into account the fact that they come back in a year or two. And the introduction of our technology requires the development of R & D that takes time. Nobody wants to risk. "
All hope of young scientists at SFU and his large laboratory. There will be around and supported by the University already thinking about industrial production. In Krasnoyarsk Regional Science Foundation support development while not received - did not pass the competition.
"Supporting projects boundary Science Foundation on a competitive basis. Results of competitions approved by the Supervisory Board. Apparatus Fund does not review applications submitted for the contest. This year, organizers may apply when appropriate will be announced on the competition - in the period for the submission of bids "- spokeswoman Galina Prokopeva Fund.
In general, it can be noted that, despite the difficulties faced by young inventors in the development of their technology, especially meeting left a positive impression. Such scholars are vivid proof that the science in the Krasnoyarsk region and have developed it, focusing not only Russian, but also best international level.
