Solar fuels generator

Lewis, Nathan S.; Spurgeon, Joshua M.

Title: Solar fuels generator

Patent · Tue Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016

OSTI ID:1330365

Lewis, Nathan S.; Spurgeon, Joshua M.

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.

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Research Organization:: California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: SC000493

Assignee:: California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)

Patent Number(s):: 9,476,129

Application Number:: 13/855,515

OSTI ID:: 1330365

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2013 Apr 02

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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