New Paper: Passive climate regulation with transpiring wood for buildings with increased energy efficiency
We are happy to share our latest work on wood-based energy-efficient building materials! It was just published in Materials Horizons.
20% of energy consumption globally is used for maintaining a comfortable indoor climate. Developing materials that are able to passively regulate indoor thermal and/or humidity would be highly relevant for energy-saving buildings.
We develop “transpiring wood” that shows superior humidity and temperature regulation performance. By decreasing the indoor temperature fluctuations, we calculated an energy saving in the order of 10% for cooling, and up to 27% for heating.