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Combating fogging with selective sunlight nano-absorbers

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    A nanoscopically thin gold coating at the optical percolation threshold was fabricated using scalable methods. Despite its extreme thinness, the film absorbs about 30% of the solar radiation while being transparent. The resulting photoinduced heating prevents or mitigates fogging on transparent surfaces.

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    Fig. 1: Percolating Au film for antifogging coatings.

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    This is a summary of: Haechler, I. et al. Transparent sunlight-activated antifogging metamaterials. Nat. Nanotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01267-1 (2022).

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    Combating fogging with selective sunlight nano-absorbers. Nat. Nanotechnol. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01269-z

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