POLYMER-COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH LIGHT CONCENTRATING AND SPECTRAL SHIFTING PROPERTIES

    公开(公告)号:US20240176064A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-30

    申请号:US18523375

    申请日:2023-11-29

    申请人: Ian D. HOSEIN

    发明人: Ian D. HOSEIN

    摘要: A polymer composite for use as a solar cell encapsulant is defined by a thin film having a first side and an opposing second side and at least one optical structure formed in the film. The least one optical structure includes one or more waveguide formed by a core of a high-refractive index polymer, such as an acrylate and a cladding of a low refractive index polymer, such as a silicone. In a preferred embodiment, two intersecting waveguide arrays are defined, each having waveguides disposed at equal and opposite angles in relation to a normal of a surface of the film. The polymer composite further includes at least one light conversion material that is capable of upconverting and/or downconverting UV and/or IR portions of light entering the film into visible light.

    SYNTHESIS OF SUPERHYDROPHOBIC MICROPOROUS SURFACES VIA LIGHT-DIRECTED PHTOPOLYMERIZATION AND PHASE SEPARATION

    公开(公告)号:US20210240084A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-05

    申请号:US17239948

    申请日:2021-04-26

    申请人: Ian D. Hosein

    发明人: Ian D. Hosein

    摘要: The formation of microporous surfaces through polymer induced phase separation in a photopolymer solvent mixture using photopolymerization via light self-focusing and self-trapping. The self-trapping of light sets fixed regions of brightness and darkness, sustained by the polymerization of light, and then wave guiding within the substrate. Phase separation occurs with the solvent phase separating in the regions of darkness and crosslinking in the regions of brightness. Upon removal of the solvent, precise and uniformly dispersed pores are created in the surface. The pore size and spacing may be tuned by adjusting the weight fraction of the photopolymer solvent mixture as well as through changes in the mask pattern.

    ANTI-WETTING, NON-STICK SURFACES FROM A PHOTOPOLYMER-NANOPARTICLE FORMULATION

    公开(公告)号:US20240272549A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18567876

    申请日:2022-06-07

    申请人: Ian D. Hosein

    发明人: Ian D. Hosein

    IPC分类号: G03F7/029 C08F22/10

    CPC分类号: G03F7/029 C08F22/1006

    摘要: A polymer film having a non-planar surface defined by a series of surface bumps and a plurality of nanoparticles in the polymer film, wherein the nanoparticles are more concentrated proximately to surface and in the surface bumps to provide anti-wetting and anti-stick properties. The polymer coating is formed by casting a thin layer of a photopolymerizable polymer precursor having a plurality of nanoparticles over a transparent substrate and then irradiating the thin layer from below with a periodic light field so that the photopolymerizable polymer precursor forms a polymer with a non-planar surface and the nanoparticles are concentrated proximately to the non-planar surface as a result of phase separation. The resulting film can be washed with a solvent to remove any uncured polymer and peeled away from the substrate for use as an anti-stick and anti-wetting coating.

    Synthesis of superhydrophobic microporous surfaces via light-directed photopolymerization and phase separation

    公开(公告)号:US11022888B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-01

    申请号:US16164910

    申请日:2018-10-19

    申请人: Ian D. Hosein

    发明人: Ian D. Hosein

    摘要: The formation of microporous surfaces through polymer induced phase separation in a photopolymer solvent mixture using photopolymerization via light self-focusing and self-trapping. The self-trapping of light sets fixed regions of brightness and darkness, sustained by the polymerization of light, and then wave guiding within the substrate. Phase separation occurs with the solvent phase separating in the regions of darkness and crosslinking in the regions of brightness. Upon removal of the solvent, precise and uniformly dispersed pores are created in the surface. The pore size and spacing may be tuned by adjusting the weight fraction of the photopolymer solvent mixture as well as through changes in the mask pattern.

    PATTERNING STRUCTURES IN REACTIVE FERROFLUIDIC POLYMER RESINS

    公开(公告)号:US20220403121A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-22

    申请号:US17846352

    申请日:2022-06-22

    申请人: Ian D. Hosein

    发明人: Ian D. Hosein

    IPC分类号: C08J3/28 C08J5/00

    摘要: A patterned surface structure formed from a ferrofluidic polymer resin having a plurality of magnetic nanoparticles. The polymer resin is patterned with a magnetic field that is applied to the ferrofluidic polymer resin during curing. The ferrofluidic polymer resin may be cast over a non-magnetic planar substrate. A magnetic field is applied to the ferrofluidic polymer resin to induce a pattern in a surface of the ferrofluidic polymer resin. The patterned ferrofluidic polymer resin is then cured to form the permanently patterned surface.

    SYNTHESIS OF SUPERHYDROPHOBIC MICROPOROUS SURFACES VIA LIGHT-DIRECTED PHTOPOLYMERIZATION AND PHASE SEPARATION

    公开(公告)号:US20190127548A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US16164910

    申请日:2018-10-19

    申请人: Ian D. Hosein

    发明人: Ian D. Hosein

    摘要: The formation of microporous surfaces through polymer induced phase separation in a photopolymer solvent mixture using photopolymerization via light self-focusing and self-trapping. The self-trapping of light sets fixed regions of brightness and darkness, sustained by the polymerization of light, and then wave guiding within the substrate. Phase separation occurs with the solvent phase separating in the regions of darkness and crosslinking in the regions of brightness. Upon removal of the solvent, precise and uniformly dispersed pores are created in the surface. The pore size and spacing may be tuned by adjusting the weight fraction of the photopolymer solvent mixture as well as through changes in the mask pattern.