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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Gang Chen, Carlisle, 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);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
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.