High optical transparency polymer aerogels using low refractive index monomers

Bulger, Eli; Chintapalli, Mahati; Iftime, Gabriel; Van Overmeere, Quentin; Rivest, Jessica Louis Baker; Neelakantan, Ravi; Meckler, Stephen

Title: High optical transparency polymer aerogels using low refractive index monomers

Patent · Tue Dec 26 00:00:00 EST 2023

OSTI ID:2294001

Bulger, Eli; Chintapalli, Mahati; Iftime, Gabriel; Van Overmeere, Quentin; Rivest, Jessica Louis Baker; Neelakantan, Ravi; Meckler, Stephen

A method of producing a polymer aerogel includes dissolving precursors into a solvent, wherein the precursors include monomers, crosslinkers, a controlling agent and an initiator to form a precursor solution, wherein at least one of the monomers or at least one of the crosslinkers has a refractive index of 1.5 or lower, polymerizing the precursor solution to form a gel polymer, and removing the solvent from the gel polymer to produce the polymer aerogel. A method of producing a polymer aerogel include dissolving precursors into a solvent, wherein the precursors include monomers, crosslinkers, a controlling agent and an initiator to form a precursor solution, polymerizing the precursor solution to form a gel polymer, removing the solvent from the gel polymer to produce the polymer aerogel, and reducing a refractive index of one of either the gel polymer or the polymer aerogel.

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Research Organization:: Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)

DOE Contract Number:: AR0000074

Assignee:: Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, CT)

Patent Number(s):: 11,851,543

Application Number:: 17/245,418

OSTI ID:: 2294001

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 04/30/2021

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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