Lin Zhao

US Patent:

20220223130, Jul 14, 2022

Filed:

Oct 21, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/507491

Inventors:

- Cambridge MA, US
Gang Chen - Carlisle MA, US
Xuanhe Zhao - Allston MA, US
Elise M. Strobach - Clear Lake WI, US
Bikramjit S. Bhatia - Cambridge MA, US
Lin Zhao - Revere MA, US
Sungwoo Yang - Chattanooga TN, US
Lee A. Weinstein - Somerville MA, US
Thomas A. Cooper - Boston MA, US
Shaoting Lin - Cambridge MA, US

International Classification:

G10K 11/168
B32B 7/027
B32B 7/12
B32B 9/04
E06B 9/24

Abstract:

Described herein are window retrofits including a monolithic silica aerogel slab having (i) an average haze value of

US Patent:

20210123558, Apr 29, 2021

Filed:

Aug 29, 2020

Appl. No.:

17/006826

Inventors:

- Cambridge MA, US
Bikram BHATIA - Cambridge MA, US
Lin ZHAO - Revere MA, US
Evelyn N. WANG - Cambridge MA, US

International Classification:

F16L 59/02
F25B 17/08
F25B 27/00
C09D 5/33
C09D 123/06
C09D 7/61
F16L 59/08

Abstract:

Recent progress in passive radiative cooling technologies have significantly improved cooling performance under direct sunlight. Performance of existing passive radiative coolers for air conditioning and portable refrigeration applications can be improved with a material that is solar reflective and infrared transparent that can also have a low thermal conductivity.

US Patent:

20210094834, Apr 1, 2021

Filed:

Nov 6, 2020

Appl. No.:

17/091141

Inventors:

- Cambridge MA, US
Evelyn N. Wang - Cambridge MA, US
Svetlana Boriskina - Winchester MA, US
Lee A. Weinstein - Somerville MA, US
Sungwoo Yang - Chattanooga TN, US
Bikramjit S. Bhatia - Cambridge MA, US
Lin Zhao - Revere MA, US
Elise M. Strobach - Clear Lake WI, US
Thomas A. Cooper - Boston MA, US
David M. Bierman - Cambridge MA, US
Xiaopeng Huang - Mountain View CA, US
James Loomis - Valparaiso FL, US

International Classification:

C01B 33/158
B01J 13/00
F24S 80/65
F24S 80/56
F24S 20/20
C04B 14/06
C01B 33/14
F24S 70/20
F24S 10/95
F24S 23/70

Abstract:

A silica aerogel having a mean pore size less than 5 nm with a standard deviation of 3 nm. The silica aerogel may have greater than 95% solar-weighted transmittance at a thickness of 8 mm for wavelengths in the range of 250 nm to 2500 nm, and a 400 C. black-body weighted specific extinction coefficient of greater than 8 m/kg for wavelengths of 1.5 μm to 15 μm. Silica aerogel synthesis methods are described. A solar thermal aerogel receiver (STAR) may include an opaque frame defining an opening, an aerogel layer disposed in the opaque frame, with at least a portion of the aerogel layer being proximate the opening, and a heat transfer fluid pipe in thermal contact with and proximate the aerogel layer. A concentrating solar energy system may include a STAR and at least one reflector to direct sunlight to an opening in the STAR.

US Patent:

20190333490, Oct 31, 2019

Filed:

Apr 25, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/394447

Inventors:

- Cambridge MA, US
Gang Chen - Carlisle MA, US
Xuanhe Zhao - Allston MA, US
Elise M. Strobach - Clear Lake WI, US
Bikramjit S. Bhatia - Cambridge MA, US
Lin Zhao - Revere MA, US
Sungwoo Yang - Chattanooga TN, US
Lee A. Weinstein - Somerville MA, US
Thomas A. Cooper - Boston MA, US
Shaoting Lin - Cambridge MA, US

International Classification:

G10K 11/168
B32B 7/027
B32B 7/12
B32B 9/04
E06B 9/24

Abstract:

Described herein are window retrofits including a monolithic silica aerogel slab having (i) an average haze value of

US Patent:

20190100439, Apr 4, 2019

Filed:

Feb 24, 2017

Appl. No.:

16/079172

Inventors:

- Cambridge MA, US
Evelyn N. Wang - Cambridge MA, US
Svetlana Boriskina - Winchester MA, US
Lee A. Weinstein - Somerville MA, US
Sungwoo Yang - Chattanooga TN, US
Bikramjit S. Bhatia - Cambridge MA, US
Lin Zhao - Revere MA, US
Elise M. Strobach - Clear Lake WI, US
Thomas A. Cooper - Boston MA, US
David M. Bierman - Cambridge MA, US
Xiaopeng Huang - Mountain View CA, US
James Loomis - Valparaiso FL, US

International Classification:

C01B 33/158
B01J 13/00
F24S 80/65
F24S 80/56
F24S 23/70
F24S 20/20
F24S 10/95
F24S 70/20

Abstract:

A silica aerogel having a mean pore size less than 5 nm with a standard deviation of 3 nm. The silica aerogel may have greater than 95% solar-weighted transmittance at a thickness of 8 mm for wavelengths in the range of 250 nm to 2500 nm, and a 400 C. black-body weighted specific extinction coefficient of greater than 8 m/kg for wavelengths of 1.5 μm to 15 μm. Silica aerogel synthesis methods are described. A solar thermal aerogel receiver (STAR) may include an opaque frame defining an opening, an aerogel layer disposed in the opaque frame, with at least a portion of the aerogel layer being proximate the opening, and a heat transfer fluid pipe in thermal contact with and proximate the aerogel layer. A concentrating solar energy system may include a STAR and at least one reflector to direct sunlight to an opening in the STAR.