(a) What is the fundamental difference between electrochromic, thermochromic and photochromic materials? (b) WO 3 is widely...

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(a) What is the fundamental difference between electrochromic, thermochromic and photochromic materials? 

(b) WO3 is widely used in electrochromic materials. Explain why WO3 is suited to this application. Give a brief description of how an electrochromic window based on WO3 works.

(c) Both WO3- and IrO2-based electrochromic glasses switch between colourless and dark blue. How do the ways in which the colour changes occur differ in the two glasses?

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Inorganic Chemistry

ISBN: 9781292134147

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Authors: Catherine Housecroft

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