Solar fuels generator

Patent · Tue Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2019

OSTI ID:1568122

Lewis, Nathan S.; Spurgeon, Joshua M.; West, William C.; Xiang, Chengxiang

The solar fuels generator includes an ionically conductive separator between a gaseous first phase and a second phase. A photoanode uses one or more components of the first phase to generate cations during operation of the solar fuels generator. A cation conduit is positioned provides a pathway along which the cations travel from the photoanode to the separator. The separator conducts the cations. A second solid cation conduit conducts the cations from the separator to a photocathode.

• Research Organization: California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: SC0004993
• Assignee: The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• Patent Number(s): 10,242,806
• Application Number: 15/982,832
• OSTI ID: 1568122
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 05/17/2018
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English