US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Dartmouth College on Sept. 23 for "Solar receiver, selectively absorbing material, and associated fabrication methods" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,420, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"Solar receiver, selectively absorbing material, and associated fabrication methods" was invented by Jifeng Liu (Hanover, N.H.), Xiaoxin Wang (Hanover, N.H.), Eldred Lee (Hanover, N.H.) and Can Xu (Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A selectively-absorbing material includes a silicone polymer and transition-metal oxide nanoparticles dispersed therein. Each of the transition-metal oxide nanoparticles includes manganese. A solar receiver includes (i) a metal substrate including an etched surface having a microroughness between 0.05 mi...