Patent Issued on "Localized Solar Collectors"
Patent Issued on "Localized Solar Collectors"
Event Date: | October 4, 2016 |
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This work was also published in Nature Communications: "Solar Steam Generation by Heat Localization" by Hadi Ghasemi, George Ni, Amy Marconnet, James Loomis, Selcuk Yerci, Nenad Miljkovic, and Gang Chen. The article discusses the development of a carbon-based structure (figure to right) to generate steam with low optical concentration and high optical-to-thermal efficiency. This new structure provides a novel approach to harvesting solar energy for a broad range of phase-change applications.
For more information see:
Patent: http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=9459024 and http://technology.mit.edu/technologies/16537_localized-solar-collectors
Nature Communications Article: http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5449
This work was also featured in several online sources including a Popular Science Article, Scientific American Podcast, and MIT News.