Patents by Inventor Yuyin Xi

Yuyin Xi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • METHOD TO THERMO-REVERSIBLY CONTROL LIGHT AND HEAT FLOW WITH BICONTINUOUS MICRO-DOMAIN
    Publication number: 20230305289
    Abstract: A dynamically tunable composition, a device including the composition, a method of dynamically tuning radiation transmission through the composition, and a method of thermo-reversibly controlling operation of a filter formed from the composition. The composition includes a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed in a single phase region of a binary solvent systems composed of a first solvent and a second solvent, the nanoparticles having a preferential wettability to the first solvent. Changing temperature of the composition causes it to transition thermo-reversibly from the liquid state to a gel state having bi-continuous domains, including a particle domain and a solvent domain. The particle domain features nanoparticles dispersed in a first-solvent-rich fraction of the binary solvent system, and the solvent domain is a second-solvent-rich fraction of the binary solvent system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicants: University of Delaware, Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce
    Inventors: Yuyin Xi, Yun Liu