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Podcast: #4 Q&A Smart Thermochromic Window Coating
We received a lot of questions concerning our recent development, our smart thermochromic window coating. In this Podcast Daniel Mann answers these questions. For example. Some people are wondering how does this innovation compare to other available solutions....
When Science meets Art – Exposition FLUX
Last weekend on the 18th and 19th of September, the exposition ‘Flux’ was held in the Transport Artspace in Maastricht. Luc Leufkens organized this exposition because he saw an opportunity to bring science closer to society. During his research for the sustainable...
Circular Packaging Symposium at Empack Reconnect
De eerste online verpakkingsbeurs in de Benelux, Empack Reconnect, organiseerde op 17 september 2020 het Brightlands Symposium ‘Circular Challenges of Plastics Packaging’. Brightlands Materials Center was goed vertegenwoordigd op dit symposium met Marnix van Gurp als...
Podcast: #3 The construction market needs to change!
The construction market needs to change! The world around us is changing and the pressure on resources and labor is high. In current building regulations, there is a big demand for zero energy consumption of buildings and insulation requirements are very high. That is...
Podcast: #2 Our thermochromic smart window outperforms all other energy efficient glazing
In this Podcast Astrid will be talking to Daniel about his recently published building energy simulation study. This study shows that the thermochromic smart window outperforms all other glazing systems in all intermediate climates, such as the Netherlands, and can...
Sustainable Buildings Program Covered in National Newspaper
Recently our sustainable buildings program was featured in the Dutch national newspaper Reformatorisch Dagblad. In his article, journalist Bart van den Dikkenberg reports about our thermochromic coating for smart windows. The development gained widespread media...
About our podcasts
The world is changing rapidly. Major challenges in the fields of energy, mobility, health and living are ahead of us. Brightlands Materials Center offers its scientific excellence and its innovation power to meet these global challenges. Especially sustainable and...
Podcast: #1 Our thermochromic smart window
Daniel Mann, Scientist at Brightlands Materials Center and TNO, developed, together with his team, a thermochromic smart window. This smart window autonomously changes its solar heat gain depending on the glazing temperature. It enables using solar heat for heating a...
CompositesNL hosted its first webinar on June 23rd
CompositesNL, the Dutch Composites Association, hosted its first webinar on June 23rd presenting an interesting program on the sustainability aspects of composites. Presentations were given in the very dynamic Pecha Kucha style, which is an exciting...
Industrial valorization of technology developments in Additive Manufacturing Program
On June 24th Margot Segers and Richard Janssen hosted the first Brightlands Materials Center digital event for a selected group of SME companies. Like many events this year, the Next Level 3D Print Workshop was originally planned as a face-to-face event at the...
Our new thermochromic smart window
We have published an article in the scientific journal Energies on building energy simulations of a residential building. In this article we compare energy savings potential of our newly developed smart window coating to commercially available energy-efficient glazing...
Interview with Caroli Buitenhuis
1. Why do you want to change the packaging industry? What is your drive? I always think about the difference between the animal population and human population. If you look at animals as a whole, you’ll see there’s zero waste – everything fits into nature’s...