Smart perovskite-based technologies for building integration: a cross-disciplinary approach

This chapter reports a critical and comprehensive review of current research trends aiming at the design of multifunctional architectural glazings. Challenges, opportunities, and technological evolutions are reported, with special reference to highly performing materials, like perovskites, novel architectures for photoelectrochromic devices (PECDs), and the overall effects of building integration on energy balance and visual comfort indoor, adopting a multidisciplinary approach. The main objective is, in fact, to envisage not only the energy output of innovative photovoltaic (PV) films, but also to assess the manifold implications of their building integration, with special regards to the multiple requirements to be addressed in the effective design of building components.