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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey C. Grossman, Brookline, MA (US);
David Zhitomirsky, Cambridge, MA (US);
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A polymer consisting of small functional molecules can be integrated into solar thermal fuels in the solid-state for solar energy harvesting and storage. In certain embodiments, a solar energy storage device can include one or more layers of photoswitchable moieties associated with a polymer. Such solar thermal fuel polymers can be used to enable deposition from low concentration solutions, resulting in uniform and large-area thin-films. This approach enables conformal deposition on a variety of conducting substrates that can be either flat or structured and control over film growth via electrodeposition conditions and results in highly uniform and large-area thin films.