Professor YUPENG WU's Outputs (41)

Intelligent windows for electricity generation: A technologies review (2022)
Journal Article
Salas Castillo, M. S., Liu, X., Abd-AlHamid, F., Connelly, K., & Wu, Y. (2022). Intelligent windows for electricity generation: A technologies review. Building Simulation, 15(10), 1747-1773. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-022-0895-y

Buildings are responsible for over 40% of total primary energy consumption in the US and EU and therefore improving building energy efficiency has significant potential for obtaining net-zero energy buildings reducing energy consumption. The concurre... Read More about Intelligent windows for electricity generation: A technologies review.

Ternary composite phase change materials (PCMs) towards low phase separation and supercooling: eutectic behaviors and application (2022)
Journal Article
Xing, X., Lu, W., Zhang, G., Wu, Y., Du, Y., Xiong, Z., Wang, L., Du, K., & Wang, H. (2022). Ternary composite phase change materials (PCMs) towards low phase separation and supercooling: eutectic behaviors and application. Energy Reports, 8, 2646-2655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2021.12.069

Salt hydrates have been used as phase change materials (PCMs) for various types of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) especially for cold storage. In this project, a novel composite phase change material (PCM) consisted of mixed solution of inorganic salt... Read More about Ternary composite phase change materials (PCMs) towards low phase separation and supercooling: eutectic behaviors and application.

Development of cost-effective PCM-carbon foam composites for thermal energy storage (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, X., Yang, F., Li, M., Sun, C., & Wu, Y. (2022). Development of cost-effective PCM-carbon foam composites for thermal energy storage. Energy Reports, 8, 1696-1703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2021.12.065

Phase Change Materials (PCMs) has gained considerable interest for storing thermal energy originating from the solar irradiation, industrial waste heat and surplus heat. Here, we present the facile and scalable synthesis of PCM-carbon foam composites... Read More about Development of cost-effective PCM-carbon foam composites for thermal energy storage.

Switching daylight: Performance prediction of climate adaptive ETFE foil façades (2021)
Journal Article
Flor, J. F., Liu, X., Sun, Y., Beccarelli, P., Chilton, J., & Wu, Y. (2022). Switching daylight: Performance prediction of climate adaptive ETFE foil façades. Building and Environment, 209, Article 108650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108650

This paper reports on the daylighting performance of switchable ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) foil in double-skin façades (DSF). In contrast to conventional glazing or static ETFE façades, switchable ETFE moderates incident daylight and control... Read More about Switching daylight: Performance prediction of climate adaptive ETFE foil façades.

Experimental Characterisation of a Smart Glazing with Tuneable Transparency, Light Scattering Ability and Electricity Generation Function (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, X., & Wu, Y. (2021). Experimental Characterisation of a Smart Glazing with Tuneable Transparency, Light Scattering Ability and Electricity Generation Function. Applied Energy, 303, Article 117521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117521

Daylighting control technologies have become an essential part of sustainable building design to reduce overheating, glare and energy consumption in buildings. In this paper, a smart glazing system where a Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) glaz... Read More about Experimental Characterisation of a Smart Glazing with Tuneable Transparency, Light Scattering Ability and Electricity Generation Function.

Numerical investigation of a smart window system with thermotropic parallel Slat-Transparent Insulation Material for building energy conservation and daylight autonomy (2021)
Journal Article
Sun, Y., Wilson, R., Liu, H., & Wu, Y. (2021). Numerical investigation of a smart window system with thermotropic parallel Slat-Transparent Insulation Material for building energy conservation and daylight autonomy. Building and Environment, 203, Article 108048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108048

Smart window designs have emerged as a means of providing dynamic regulation of solar energy and daylight, enhancing indoor comfort, and achieving building energy conservation. We evaluated a novel window design that integrated a thermotropic (TT) ma... Read More about Numerical investigation of a smart window system with thermotropic parallel Slat-Transparent Insulation Material for building energy conservation and daylight autonomy.

Monte-Carlo optical model coupled with Inverse Adding-Doubling for Building Integrated Photovoltaic smart window design and characterisation (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, X., & Wu, Y. (2021). Monte-Carlo optical model coupled with Inverse Adding-Doubling for Building Integrated Photovoltaic smart window design and characterisation. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 223, Article 110972. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2021.110972

Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) glazings are promising technologies with the benefits of electricity generation, solar shading and building energy savings. A new approach is to integrate BIPV windows with thermotropic materials such as Hydrox... Read More about Monte-Carlo optical model coupled with Inverse Adding-Doubling for Building Integrated Photovoltaic smart window design and characterisation.

Virtual Reality as a tool for evaluating user acceptance of view clarity through ETFE double-skin façades (2020)
Journal Article
Flor, J.-F., Aburas, M., Abd-Alhamid, F., & Wu, Y. (2021). Virtual Reality as a tool for evaluating user acceptance of view clarity through ETFE double-skin façades. Energy and Buildings, 231, Article 110554. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110554

Equipping building envelopes with an additional layer is an effective measure for improving the overall thermal and daylighting performance and reducing the energy consumption of buildings. This study investigated the user acceptance of energy-savi... Read More about Virtual Reality as a tool for evaluating user acceptance of view clarity through ETFE double-skin façades.

Evaluating the impact of viewing location on view perception using a virtual environment (2020)
Journal Article
Abd-Alhamid, F., Kent, M., Calautit, J., & Wu, Y. (2020). Evaluating the impact of viewing location on view perception using a virtual environment. Building and Environment, 180, Article 106932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.106932

Window views are an important design feature in buildings. Views can impact the cognitive attention, psychological and physiological well-being of building occupants due to their ability to provide recovery in stressful working environments. The impa... Read More about Evaluating the impact of viewing location on view perception using a virtual environment.

A 3D printed drug delivery implant formed from a dynamic supramolecular polyurethane formulation (2020)
Journal Article
Salimi, S., Wu, Y., Barreiros, M. I. E., Natfji, A. A., Khaled, S., Wildman, R., Hart, L. R., Greco, F., Clark, E. A., Roberts, C. J., & Hayes, W. (2020). A 3D printed drug delivery implant formed from a dynamic supramolecular polyurethane formulation. Polymer Chemistry, 11(20), 3453-3464. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0py00068j

© 2020 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Using a novel molecular design approach, we have prepared a thermo-responsive supramolecular polyurethane as a matrix material for use in drug eluting implants. The dynamic supramolecular polyurethane (SPU) is a... Read More about A 3D printed drug delivery implant formed from a dynamic supramolecular polyurethane formulation.

Toward a Sustainable Decentralized Water Supply: Review of Adsorption Desorption Desalination (ADD) and Current Technologies: Saudi Arabia (SA) as a Case Study (2020)
Journal Article
Alnajdi, O., Wu, Y., & Calautit, J. K. (2020). Toward a Sustainable Decentralized Water Supply: Review of Adsorption Desorption Desalination (ADD) and Current Technologies: Saudi Arabia (SA) as a Case Study. Water, 12(4), Article 1111. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12041111

Several regions are confronting a severe scarcity of fresh water due to the gap between supply and demand. They strive to bridge that gap by depleting nonrenewable water aquifers and expanding centralized energy-intensive desalination technologies. C... Read More about Toward a Sustainable Decentralized Water Supply: Review of Adsorption Desorption Desalination (ADD) and Current Technologies: Saudi Arabia (SA) as a Case Study.

Switchable ETFE cushion: designing and building a model for experimental testing (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flor, J.-F., Sun, Y., Beccarelli, P., Wu, Y., & Chilton, J. (2019, October). Switchable ETFE cushion: designing and building a model for experimental testing. Presented at IASS Annual Symposium 2019 – Structural Membranes 2019, Form and Force, Barcelona, Spain

Adaptive façade systems have the potential for saving energy and enhancing comfort conditions in buildings. Creating working models with materials, components and functions which embody the design idea of a responsive building envelope is an importan... Read More about Switchable ETFE cushion: designing and building a model for experimental testing.

Developing an Innovative Method for Visual Perception Evaluation in a Physical-Based Virtual Environment (2019)
Journal Article
Abd-Alhamid, F., Kent, M., Bennett, C., Calautit, J., & Wu, Y. (2019). Developing an Innovative Method for Visual Perception Evaluation in a Physical-Based Virtual Environment. Building and Environment, 162, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106278

With the developments in virtual reality technologies, significant researches have been conducted for human response on indoor luminous environment using head-mounted display to replace those in real environment. However, the limited resolution and l... Read More about Developing an Innovative Method for Visual Perception Evaluation in a Physical-Based Virtual Environment.

An Exploration of the Combined Effects of NIR and VIS Spectrally Selective Thermochromic Materials on Building Performance (2019)
Journal Article
Liang, R., Sun, Y., Aburas, M., Wilson, R., & Wu, Y. (2019). An Exploration of the Combined Effects of NIR and VIS Spectrally Selective Thermochromic Materials on Building Performance. Energy and Buildings, 201, 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.05.061

Thermochromic (TC) windows are able to adjust solar radiation transmitted into buildings in response to varying window surface temperature. Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) is the most common TC material used for TC windows, as it can reduce near infrared (NIR... Read More about An Exploration of the Combined Effects of NIR and VIS Spectrally Selective Thermochromic Materials on Building Performance.

Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems (2019)
Journal Article
Sun, Y., Liu, D., Flor, J.-F., Shank, K., Baig, H., Wilson, R., Liu, H., Sundaram, S., Mallick, T. K., & Wu, Y. (2020). Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems. Renewable Energy, 145, 153-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.05.061

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Integrating photovoltaics into windows provides the possibility of including an additional function of energy production to a conventional building fenestration component. There is no doubt that electrical power can be generated o... Read More about Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems.

Comprehensive evaluation of window-integrated semi-transparent PV for building daylight performance (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, D., Sun, Y., Wilson, R., & Wu, Y. (2020). Comprehensive evaluation of window-integrated semi-transparent PV for building daylight performance. Renewable Energy, 145, 1399-1411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.04.167

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Building-integrated semi-transparent photovoltaic windows (PV windows) have been considered as a potential candidate to replace conventional windows to improve building energy efficiency and hence reduce carbon emissions. With the... Read More about Comprehensive evaluation of window-integrated semi-transparent PV for building daylight performance.

Design and optical characterisation of an efficient light trapping structure for dye-sensitized solar cell integrated windows (2018)
Journal Article
Knott, A., Liu, X., Makarovskiy, O., O'Shea, J., Tuck, C., & Wu, Y. (2019). Design and optical characterisation of an efficient light trapping structure for dye-sensitized solar cell integrated windows. Building Simulation, 12(1), 41-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-018-0485-1

Windows integrated with semi-transparent photovoltaics (PVs) such as Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) show good potential in improving building performance, in term of providing daylight, reducing unnecessary solar heat gain and also generating ele... Read More about Design and optical characterisation of an efficient light trapping structure for dye-sensitized solar cell integrated windows.

A review of Transparent Insulation Material (TIM) for building energy saving and daylight comfort (2018)
Journal Article
Sun, Y., Wilson, R., & Wu, Y. (2018). A review of Transparent Insulation Material (TIM) for building energy saving and daylight comfort. Applied Energy, 226, 713-729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.05.094

Improving the energy efficiency of buildings is a key strategy in responding to climate change and resource challenges associated with the use of fossil fuel derived energy. The characteristics of the building envelope play a decisive role in determi... Read More about A review of Transparent Insulation Material (TIM) for building energy saving and daylight comfort.

Scanning photocurrent microscopy of 3D printed light trapping structures in dye-sensitized solar cells (2018)
Journal Article
Knott, A. N., Makarovsky, O., O’Shea, P., Tuck, C., & Wu, Y. (2018). Scanning photocurrent microscopy of 3D printed light trapping structures in dye-sensitized solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 180, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2018.02.028

Converting solar energy directly into electricity as a clean and renewable energy resource is immensely important to solving the energy crisis and environmental pollution problems induced by the consumption of fossil fuels. Dye-sensitized solar cells... Read More about Scanning photocurrent microscopy of 3D printed light trapping structures in dye-sensitized solar cells.

Effect of air voids content on thermal properties of asphalt mixtures (2016)
Journal Article
Garcia, A., Hassn, A., Hassn, A., Aboufoul, M., Wu, Y., Dawson, A., & Garcia, A. (2016). Effect of air voids content on thermal properties of asphalt mixtures. Construction and Building Materials, 115, 327-335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2016.03.106

Air voids content is considered as one of the factors that may affect heat transfer through asphalt mixture, although their specific role on the asphalt mixture temperature is still unclear. The objective of this research is to have a deep insight of... Read More about Effect of air voids content on thermal properties of asphalt mixtures.