An artificial vasculature for adaptive thermal control of windows

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 117, Issue , 2013, Pages 429-436

  Hatton, Benjamin D ^a,b,e   Wheeldon, Ian ^a,f   Hancock, Matthew J ^d   Kolle, Mathias ^a,b   Aizenberg, Joanna ^a,b   Ingber, Donald E ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective cooling; Heat transfer; Microfluidic; Optical absorption; Window

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION PROPERTY; CONVECTIVE COOLING; ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES; MICRO-VASCULATURE; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS; STEADY-STATE HEAT TRANSFER; WATER TEMPERATURES;

COOLING; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW RATE; HEAT TRANSFER; INFRARED IMAGING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICONES; TEMPERATURE; WINDOWS;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84880876308     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.06.027     Document Type: Article

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