Systems for electrochemical sorting of metals and alloys

Title: Systems for electrochemical sorting of metals and alloys

Disclosed is an electrochemical probe system and an electrical excitation method, configured in a bulk sorting system, and used to identify the composition of metals and alloys.

Inventors:: Eldershaw, Craig; Sahu, Saroj; Garner, Sean; Rao, Ranjeet; Kole, Ashutosh; Vedharathinam, Vedasri; Desai, Divyaraj; Rivest, Jessica Louis Baker; Steele, Richard; Sheridan, Martin J.

Issue Date:: 2017-07-11

OSTI Identifier:: 1369072

Assignee:: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED ARPA-E

Patent Number(s):: 9,702,845

Application Number:: 14/626,092

Contract Number:: AR0000405

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2015 Feb 19

Research Org:: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED, Palo Alto, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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