Electrochromic system
AssigneeUniversity College Dublin
InventorsDonald Fitzmaurice, S. Nagaraja Rao, Rachel Cinnsealach, Brendan Enright
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Abstract
A method for the manufacture of an electrochromic system using a nanoporous-nanocrystalline film comprising a semiconducting metallic oxide having a redox chromophore adsorbed thereto.
Claims9
A method for the manufacture of an electrochromic system using a nanoporous-nanocrystalline film comprising a semiconducting metallic oxide having a redox chromophore adsorbed thereto, wherein the redox chromophore comprises a compound of the formula
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- wherein X is a charge balancing ion,
- the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing an electrochromic system comprising a first and a second electrode;
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- (b) disposing said nanoporous-nanocrystalline film on said first or second electrode.
A method for the manufacture of an electrochromic system using a nanoporous-nanocrystalline film comprising a semiconducting metallic oxide having a redox chromophore adsorbed thereto, wherein the redox chromophore comprises a compound of the formula
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- wherein X is a charge balancing ion;
- R1 is one of the following
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- and R2 is one of the following:
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- the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing an electrochromic system comprising a first and a second electrode;
- and
- (b) disposing said nanoporous-nanocrystalline film on said first or second electrode.
A method for the manufacture of an electrochromic system using a nanoporous-nanocrystalline film comprising a semiconducting metallic oxide having a redox chromophore adsorbed thereto, wherein the redox chromophore comprises a compound of the formula
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- wherein X is a charge balancing ion;
- R1 is one of the following
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- where m is an integer of from 1 to 6 and n is an integer of from 1 to 10,
- the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing an electrochromic system comprising a first and a second electrode;
- and
- (b) disposing said nanoporous-nanocrystalline film on said first or second electrode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.