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This special issue of the journal AIMS Materials Science is dedicated to a hot topic of smart windows as the advanced architectural glass coatings providing the comfortable daylight and thermal environment indoors and improving the energy efficiency of the buildings. Low-emissivity coatings; photochromic, ionochromic, acidichromic, thermochromic, thermotropic, chemochromic, gasochromic, halochromic, solvatochromic, hygrochromic, mechanochromic, piezochromic, tribochromic and electrochromic materials; elastomer-deformation, nanocrystal in-glass composites, liquid crystal and suspended particle devices; electrokinetic pixel and liquid infill windows are analyzed. A smart window with additional function of angular filtering of solar radiation without using the blinds or other light redistribution devices is described. Such a window has an optical filter consisting of parallel non-transmissive (absorptive, reflective or scattering, including chromogenics) strips on two surfaces of the pane(s). The filter blocks the direct sunlight partially or completely in a preset angular range and transmits the diffused light providing comfortable day lighting indoors. Methods for calculating the geometrical parameters of the gratings considering the annual and daily change in the solar radiation, the location of the building and the window’s azimuth and the angular and temporal characteristics of the light transmittance of a conventional smart window fully glazed with chromogenic glass and a smart window with grating filter are given. A comparative assessment of the potential of various chromogenic and other materials and technologies for the use in smart windows, as well as in grating filters for them, is carried out. The future prospects of the field are declared.

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