Roger J. Mortimer & David R. Rosseinsky 
Electrochromic Materials and Devices 

Electrochromic materials can change their optical properties on the application of an electrical voltage or current. Different classes of materials show this behaviour including transition metal oxides, conjugated polymers, metal-coordinated complexes and organic molecules. As the colour change is persistent, the electric field usually needs only to be applied to effect the switching, allowing for applications such as low energy-consumption displays, light-adapting mirrors in vehicles, and ‘smart windows’ for which the amount of transmitted light and heat can be controlled.

The first part of this book describes the different classes and processing techniques of electrochromic materials. The second part highlights nanostructured electrochromic materials and device fabrication, and the third part focuses on the applications such as smart windows, adaptive camouflage, wearable displays and fashion. The last part of the book comprises case studies and environmental impact issues.

From the contents:
* Part One: Electrochromic Materials and Processing

* Part Two: Nanostructured Electrochromic Materials and Device Fabrication

* Part Three: Applications of Electrochromic Materials

* Part Four: Device Case Studies, Environmental Impact Issues and Elaborations

Table of Content

PART ONE – ELECTROCHROMIC MATERIALS AND PROCESSING

Electrochromic Metal Oxides: An Introduction to Devices and Materials
Electrochromic Materials Based on Prussian Blue and other Metal Metallohexacyanates
Electrochromic Materials and Devices Based on Viologens
Electrochromic Deviced Based on Metal Hexacyanometallate/Viologen Pairings
Conjugated Electrochromic Polymers: Structure Driven Color and Processing Control
Electrochromism within Transition Metal Coordination Complexes and Polymers
Organic Near-Infrared Electrochromic Materials
Metal Hydrides for Smart Window Applications

PART TWO – NANOSTRUCTURED ELECTROCHROMIC MATERIALS AND DEVICE FABRICATION
Nanostructures in Electrochromic Materials
Advances in Polymer Electrolytes for Electrochromic Applications
Gyroid-Structured Electrodes for Electrochromic and Supercapacitor Applications
Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Electrochromic Materials: On the Efficient Method of Immobilization of Nanomaterials
Plasmonic Electrochromism of Metal Oxide Nanocrystals

PART THREE – APPLICATIONS OF ELECTROCHROMIC MATERIALS
Solution-Phase Electrochromic Devices and Systems
Electrochromic Smart Windows for Dynamic Daylight and Solar Energy Control in Buildings
Fabric Electrochromic Displays for Adaptive Camouflage, Biomimicry, Wearable Displays and Fashion

PART FOUR – DEVICE CASE STUDIES, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ISSUES AND ELABORATIONS
Electrochromic Foil: A Case Study
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of Electrochromic Smart Windows
Electrochromic Glazing in Buildings: A Case Study
Photoelectrochromic Materials and Devices

APPENDIX
Definitions of Electrochromic Materials and Devices Performance Parameters

About the author

Paul M. S. Monk received his Ph D in the electrochemistry of novel electrochromic viologen species at Exeter University in 1989. A postdoctoral research fellow position (1989-91) at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, was followed by lecturing positions in Physical Chemistry at Manchester Polytechnic (1991-2) then Manchester Metropolitan University (1992-2007). He is currently employed as a Vicar in an inner-city parish in Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK.

Roger J. Mortimer was Professor in Physical Chemistry at Loughborough University between 2006 and his untimely death in 2015. He graduated from Imperial College London with a Ph D in heterogeneous catalysis at sold-liquid interfaces. After a postdoctoral research fellowship (1980-81) and visiting associate in chemistry (1988) at the California Institute of Technology, he became demonstrator and a Research Assistant at Exeter University. Lecturing positions in Physical Chemistry ensued at Anglia Ruskin University (1984-87) and Analytical Chemistry at Sheffield Hallam University (1987-89), followed by his appointment as a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Loughborough University in 1989.

David R. Rosseinsky is an Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow in Physics at Exeter University, having been Reader in Physical Chemistry there from 1979-1998. After Rhodes University he pursued studies leading to Ph D then DSc on charge transfer interactions at Manchester University. Following a sojourn at the University of Pennsylvania, from 1959 he became a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and in 1961, lecturer at Exeter University. With his ex research-student H Kellawi (by then Prof at Damascus University, on sabbatical), they studied Prussian blue and other electrochromic systems, extended in an invited appointment to SIMTech, Singapore, 2000-2002.