Glass cleans itself by sunlight and allow to access without heat
ACTIVE
Blkinjton glass covered with a thin layer of very Mkrochristalin titanium dioxide, which responds to the sunlight. This interaction separated the garbage from the glass, without the need for the use of scanners, and when the water falls, there is interaction that leads to the slide of dirt and water on the surface of glass.
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innovation is one of four innovations reached the finals of Engineering MacRobert Award in the year 2004, this award by the British Royal Academy of Engineering to encourage technological innovation and engineering.
And despite of the fact that this technology is not a micro-technology interactions in accuracy, but the coverage of the glass, the chemical reactions that occur at the level of being very careful (one thousand millionth of a meter).
Dr.
Sanderson said that the titanium dioxide layer covering the glass has qualities that set them apart.
First, absorb the sun''s rays and ultraviolet radiation, and during this process, the insulating layer interacts with organic dirt so fragmented. Dr. Kevin Sanderson Said, one of the members of the team who worked on the development of glass at the center of the ACTIVE research Belkington "ACTIVE Blkinjton based on titanium dioxide, a substance used in food, toothpaste, skin creams and anti-rays of the sun", but usually in the form of powder, which leads to no-vision, if put on the glass, so we used a thin layer of this material, the 15 nm thick, so it seems entirely natural glass".
Secondly, the insulating layer of glass to make the play more attractive to water "drops of dew", which means that when water touches the surface of glass, attracted to get together to something like a thin layer rather than into separate drops.
Dr. Sanderson said: "This new innovation destroys the organic dirt, and lead to a fall on the ground, but it also reduces the material to which other dirt".
Dr. Sanderson said that innovation is very important, although it would not completely professional windows cleaner, but would reduce the need for constant cleaning, which would reduce the use of detergents harmful to the environment, so we can say that this innovation-friendly environment, because each time you use strong chemicals were in the cleaning of glass, to be washed is located on the ground, causing pollution, and what we are saying here is that the glass can be cleaned as soon as the water spray is the only. Dr. Sanderson, said the innovation is another benefit in terms of safety, every year fall on the stairs outside the building, the outstanding number of workers, the cleanliness of glass and die while cleaning windows, and put forward is the possibility of cleaning the windows through the use of hose.
At another level, British researchers has developed a kind of glass to prevent the entry into force without heat to prevent the entry into force of light, through the addition of vanadium dioxide during the manufacture of glass, changing the nature of this article upon the arrival of a certain degree of heat and thus prevent the entry into force of the waves of light in the infrared a red-scale which leads to a sense of heat associated with sunlight.