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