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patent · US6471834

Photo-assisted electrolysis apparatus

29 October 2002

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Abstract

An apparatus and method for performing electrolysis on materials such as water, thereby electrically separating the electrolyte into its elemental components. More specifically, according to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided an apparatus for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen that uses a specially prepared cathode in conjunction with incident light energy to increase the efficiency of that process. A preferred embodiment of this apparatus us...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2001-01-31
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2002-10-29
Inventors
A. Nicholas Roe; Arthur N. Roe