2023results about "Electrode shape/forms" patented technology

A fixture for supporting a workpiece during electroplating of a metal upon the workpiece in a conductive electroplating bath includes a non-conductive frame member for receiving the workpiece therein. The fixture further includes a current distribution means having a plurality of contacts. The plurality of contacts is disposed inwardly for providing an equally distributed electrical contact with an outer perimeter region of the workpiece. The workpiece is supported between the frame member and the current distribution means. Lastly, a thief electrode is perimetrically disposed about the workpiece and spaced a prescribed distance from the workpiece by a gap region. During plating of a metal upon the workpiece, the gap region between the thief and the workpiece is filled with the conductive electroplating bath. An electroplating apparatus having a fixture for supporting a workpiece during an electroplating process and a method of supporting the workpiece to be electroplated are also disclosed.

The present invention generally is a cathode suitable for use in high temperature plasma etch applications. In one embodiment, the cathode includes a ceramic electrostatic chuck secured to a base. The base has cooling conduits formed therein. A rigid support ring is disposed between the chuck and the base, thereby maintaining the chuck and the base in a spaced-apart relation.

The invention relates to a novel rhodium sulfide catalyst for the reduction of oxygen in industrial electrolyzers. The catalyst is highly resistant towards corrosion and poisoning by organic species, thus resulting particularly suitable for use in aqueous hydrochloric acid electrolysis, when technical grade acid containing organic contaminants is employed.

A method and apparatus for water treatment. The method comprises supplying an oxygen-containing gas to cathode 6 to yield hydrogen peroxide, supplying an inorganic acid to anode 5 through an acid solution addition opening 4 to yield an oxidation product, e.g., hypochlorous acid, and using both the hydrogen peroxide and oxidation product thus generated to treat a liquid to be treated. The atmosphere around the cathode surface is kept neutral to acidic due to the acidity of the coexisting oxidation product to thereby inhibit the deposition of metal hydroxides.

An ozone generator which operates at constant pressures to produce a continuous flow of ozone in an oxygen stream having from 10% to 18% by weight of ozone. The ozone generator includes one or more electrolytic cells comprising an anode / anode flowfield, a cathode / cathode flowfield, and a proton exchange medium for maintaining the separation of ozone and oxygen from hydrogen. The ozone generator also has an anode reservoir which vents oxygen and ozone and a cathode reservoir which vents hydrogen. The anode reservoir can be filled from the cathode reservoir while continuing to produce ozone. The ozone generator is readily configured for self-control using a system controller programmed to operate the anode reservoir at a constant pressure.

A gas diffusion electrode comprises a cloth (12) of activated carbon fibers having a first face coated in a hydrophobic material (14) and a second face on which particles of catalyst (16) are fixed directly and are dispersed in substantially uniform manner over the fibers. The electrode can be used in an electrochemical cell of a proton exchange membrane fuel-cell battery, or in an electrochemical reactor, e.g. for making chlorine and caustic soda.

The present invention provides: a membrane-electrode assembly having a first electrode having a shape of a rod-form or a cylindrical-form, a strip-form diaphragm covering the periphery of the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on a surface of the strip-form diaphragm; an electrolytic unit containing the membrane-electrode assembly; an electrolytic water ejecting apparatus containing the electrolytic unit; and a method of sterilization using the membrane-electrode assembly.

An apparatus for the electrolytic splitting of water into hydrogen and / or oxygen, the apparatus comprising: (i) at least one lithographically-patternable substrate having a surface; (ii) a plurality of microscaled catalytic electrodes embedded in said surface; (iii) at least one counter electrode in proximity to but not on said surface; (iv) means for collecting evolved hydrogen and / or oxygen gas; (v) electrical powering means for applying a voltage across said plurality of microscaled catalytic electrodes and said at least one counter electrode; and (vi) a container for holding an aqueous electrolyte and housing said plurality of microscaled catalytic electrodes and said at least one counter electrode. Electrolytic processes using the above electrolytic apparatus or functional mimics thereof are also described.

The invention discloses a preparation method for a NiCoP nanowire electro-catalytic electrode. A NiCo salt nanowire is adopted as a phosphorization precursor, hypophosphite is used as a phosphorus source, and the phosphorization process of the NiCo salt nanowire is achieved by controlling the annealing technique in a stored program control tube type annealing furnace. The diameter of the NiCoP nanowire obtained through the method is 140 nanometers, the length of the obtained NiCoP nanowire is about 3.2 micrometers, and the surface of the nanowire is roughly and evenly grown on a 3D netty foamed nickel substrate, so that the specific surface area and the electric conductivity of an electro-catalytic material are effectively improved, and the electro-catalytic hydrogen evolution performance and stability of an electrode material are improved. The electro-catalytic hydrogen production performance of the electrode is tested in 1M of a KOH electrolyte, the overpotential under the electric current density of 10 mA / cm<2> is 109 mV, and the Tafel slope is 88.5 mV / dec, so that the material has the superior electro-catalytic hydrogen production performance compared with common electro-catalytic hydrogen evolution materials. Meanwhile, the preparation technique is simple, the equipment requirement is conventional, reactive materials are abundant, price is low, and the electrode is environmentally friendly.

An improved structure for gas diffusion electrodes and gas diffusion layers whereby fine gradients of porosity and hydrophobicity promote efficient gas transport, water removal and overall enhanced performance of Membrane Electrode Assemblies constructed with these components.

The present invention provides a gas diffusion electrode having: an electrode substrate; and a catalyst layer containing a hydrophilic catalyst and a hydrophobic binder, which is carried on the electrode substrate, wherein the electrode substrate contains at least one carbon material selected from a carbon cloth, a carbon paper, a foamed carbon material, and a sintered carbon material.

An electrode with large active surface area is made by winding a Ti-fiber tow around a rectangular Ti-plate, and an electrocatalytic coating of three layers is applied. A precoat comprising a mixture of iridium dioxide and tantalum pentoxide is applied first, using a solution of the corresponding chloride salts in hydrochloric acid with some nitric acid added to inhibit corrosion of the metal. A sealing coat is then applied, comprising tin dioxide doped with antimony, in order to improve adhesion of the final oxide coat to the precoat. The third and final coat comprises particles of titanium dioxide doped with niobium in the +4 oxidation cemented with titanium dioxide that is doped with antimony. Anodes of this description are preferably assembled together with corrosion resistant cathodes in an alternating sequence, with a plastic coated fiber glass mesh placed between the anodes and cathodes to prevent short circuiting. When a sufficiently large voltage is applied across the cell, organic substances dissolved in the electrolyte will be oxidized.

An electrode for an electrochemical cell is provided. The electrode comprises an electrode active material coated on a current collector. The surface of the electrode active material has a greater porosity than the portion nearest the current collector. The electrode includes an active material with controlled porosity, where the porosity of the inner portion is equal to or less than the porosity of the surface of the electrode after the electrode is roll-pressed. As a result, the impregnating characteristics of the electrolytic solution are improved and decreases in capacity upon charging and discharging at high rates are prevented. Therefore, excellent charge and discharge characteristics are obtained. In addition, cells including the inventive electrodes exhibit excellent charge and discharge characteristics.

The invention belongs to the technical fields of material sciences and electro-catalytic hydrogen production, and particularly relates to a nickel-iron hydrotalcite based electro-catalytic oxygen evolution electrode and preparation thereof, wherein the nickel-iron hydrotalcite based electro-catalytic oxygen evolution electrode can be used in an electrolytic water oxygen evolution reaction in an alkaline medium. An electrode system takes a nickel-iron hydrotalcite structure as a catalytic activity center and takes nickel foam as an electrode material; in the alkaline medium, the nickel-iron hydrotalcite based electro-catalytic oxygen evolution electrode can efficiently electrolyze water to prepare oxygen, the overall overcurrent polishing of electrolytic water is reduced greatly, and good stability is showed; according to the preparation technology of the nickel-iron hydrotalcite based electro-catalytic oxygen evolution electrode, a nickel-iron hydrotalcite composite structure is grownon the nickel foam base through an in-situ electrodeposition method; and the resources of required raw materials are wide, the price is low, the technology is mature and stable, operation is easy, convenient and fast, controllability is high, the process does not produce poison, and the nickel-iron hydrotalcite based electro-catalytic oxygen evolution electrode is suitable for mass production andthe industrial electrolytic water reaction.

A writing pattern to be a correcting object is divided by a rough mesh for a Foggy effect correction and a fine mesh for a proximity effect correction, a rate of an area occupied by the pattern to be written for each of the meshes is obtained, a stored energy based on a Foggy effect and a proximity effect in execution of exposure in a state in which a correction for a calculating object mesh is not carried out at all is calculated, an dose in the fine mesh for a proximity effect correction is obtained by a first calculation in such a manner that an influence of the Foggy effect and the proximity effect is reduced and a pattern and a dimension which can disregard the influence of the Foggy effect and the proximity effect are coincident with each other by the stored energy which is calculated, are calculation is carried out in such a manner that the pattern and the dimension which can disregard the influence of the Foggy effect and the proximity effect are coincident with each other with the influence of the Foggy effect and the proximity effect fixed, and the recalculation is repeated until desirable precision in a dimension is reached.

The present invention provides a catalytic system comprising a catalyst comprising nanoporous or mesoporous palladium and an ion-exchange electrolyte, processes for manufacturing the catalytic system and catalyst, and processes for oxidising or reducing organic and / or inorganic molecules using the catalyst or catalytic system.

The present invention discloses porous covalent organic frameworks (COF) supported noble metal-free nanoparticles which are useful as electrocatalysts for a water splitting system, and to the process for preparation of such electrocatalysts. The covalent organic frameworks (COF) supported noble metal-free nanoparticles have general formula (I):COF_AxBy(M)n  (Formula I)wherein COF is selected from a Tris (4-formylphenyl)amine terephthaldehyde polymer or a benzimidazole-phloroglucinol polymer;‘A’ and ‘B’ each independently represent a transition metal selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Fe, Mn, Zn, and mixtures thereof; or ‘A’ and ‘B’ together represent a transition metal selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Fe, Mn, Zn, and mixtures thereof;‘M’ represents hydroxide or a nitride ion;‘x’ and ‘y’ represent the weight % of the metal loadings; or a ratio of x:y is between 0:1 and 1:0; and‘n’ is an integer 1 or 2 or 3.

The invention belongs to the technical field of catalytic and energy storage applications of high-entropy alloys, and particularly relates to a nanometer porous high-entropy alloy catalytic electrode,a preparing method thereof and applications of the electrode in bi-functional catalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen. The electrode includes, by mole, 15-50% of Ni, 5-20% of a transition metal A, 15-50% of Mo, 5-25% of a transition metal B and 5-40% of Mn, wherein the transition metal A is Fe or Cu, and the transition metal B is one of Co, Ti or W. The alloy electrode has a porous structure, pore diameters range from 2 nm to 500 nm, and the specific surface area is 10-80 m<2> / g. The alloy electrode has advantages of 1) capability of being three-dimensional, porous, self-supporting and no need of any support or adhesive; 2) a large specific surface area and good electrical conductivity; 3) a simple material structure of the non-noble-metal porous high-entropy electrode, rich raw material sources, low prices and controllable preparation conditions; and 4) excellent catalytic performance.

The invention belongs to the technical field of electrocatalysis and particularly relates to an iron-doped bimetal phosphide electrocatalyst and a preparation method and application thereof. A hydroxide precursor synthesized by a hydrothermal reaction undergoes a phosphating reaction at a low temperature to produce a Ni1CoxFeyP nanosheet array electrocatalyst. The bimetal phosphide has low chargetransfer resistance and a reaction barrier for a hydrogen evolution reaction and has superior performances in the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction. The catalyst has a low cost. The preparation method is easy to operate and has simple processes. The electrocatalyst has excellent catalytic performances and provides the basic application research for the material in the field of electrocatalysis.

Provided are an air electrode having a structure in which an anion exchange membrane and an air electrode catalyst layer are laminated and the anion exchange membrane is disposed in contact with an aqueous alkaline solution; and a metal-air battery, an alkaline fuel cell, and a water electrolysis device each having the air electrode. The air electrode of the present invention can reduce or solve various conventional problems of an air electrode in a metal-air battery, fuel cell, and the like, which use an aqueous alkaline solution as an electrolyte, and can maintain high performance for a long period of time.

This invention pertains to improved formulations of platinum-molybdenum alloys for use as anode catalysts. These electrocatalysts find utility as a constituent of gas diffusion electrodes for use in fuel cells that operate at less than 180° C. or in applications whereupon hydrogen is oxidized in the presence of carbon monoxide or other platinum inhibiting substances. The new formulations derive unexpected activity through creating highly dispersed alloy particles of up to approximately 300 Å on carbon supports. The desired activity is achieved by carefully controlling the platinum to molybdenum ratio during preparation and judiciously selecting a proper loading of alloy on the carbon support.

The present invention provides system, method and apparatus for creating an electric glow discharge that includes a first and second electrically conductive screens having substantially equidistant a gap between them, one or more insulators attached to the electrically conductive screens, and a non-conductive granular material disposed within the gap. The electric glow discharge is created whenever: (a) the first electrically conductive screen is connected to an electrical power source such that it is a cathode, the second electrically conductive screen is connected to the electrical power supply such that it is an anode, and the electrically conductive fluid is introduced into the gap, or (b) both electrically conductive screens are connected to the electrical power supply such they are the cathode, and the electrically conductive fluid is introduced between both electrically conductive screens and an external anode connected to the electrical power supply.

A noble metal sulfide catalyst obtained by reaction of a precursor of at least one noble metal with a thionic species in an aqueous environment essentially free of sulfide ions useful as an electrocatalyst in the depolarized electrolysis of hydrochloric acid.

The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing an electrode comprising depositing on an electrode substrate a binder dispersion comprising a precursor of a conductive or semiconductive oxide, forming a conductive or semiconductive oxide coating from the precursor on the electrode substrate, depositing an electroconductive titanium oxide and electrode particles on the conductive or semiconductive oxide coating, adhering the electroconductive titanium oxide and the electrode particles to the formed conductive or semiconductive oxide coating. The invention also relates to an electrode obtainable by the process, and the use thereof in an electrolytic cell.

A method of producing aluminum in an electrolytic cell containing alumina dissolved in an electrolyte, the method comprising the steps of providing a molten salt electrolyte at a temperature of less than 900° C. having alumina dissolved therein in an electrolytic cell having a liner for containing the electrolyte, the liner having a bottom and walls extending upwardly from said bottom. A plurality of non-consumable Cu—Ni—Fe anodes and cathodes are disposed in a vertical direction in the electrolyte, the cathodes having a plate configuration and the anodes having a flat configuration to compliment the cathodes. The anodes contain apertures therethrough to permit flow of electrolyte through the apertures to provide alumina-enriched electrolyte between the anodes and the cathodes. Electrical current is passed through the anodes and through the electrolyte to the cathodes, depositing aluminum at the cathodes and producing gas at the anodes.

A compression sealable electrolysis cell that is easily and reliably manufactured, maintained and repaired comprises two insulating end pieces which can position and seal two electrode tubes with electrical contacts separated by a ceramic membrane tube where fluid can be introduced at one end piece and removed at the other end piece in the spaces between the electrode tubes and the ceramic membrane tube. The design permits the compression of the entire assembly via the fixing of nuts on one or more threaded rods extending through both end pieces without the use of an adhesive or cement and without the imposition of torque or compressive stress on the ceramic membrane tube. The water or other fluid to be electrolyzed can be introduced tangentially to spaces between the electrode tubes and the ceramic membrane tube at a angle of 0 to 15 degrees to optimize flow and contact with the electrode tubes.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a three-dimensional layered structure Fe-doped Ni-MOF nano-array (Fe0.1-Ni-MOF / NF) which is grown in situ on foamed nickel and has high regular array. Nickel foam is used as a conductive substrate. The NiFe-LDH nano-array (NiFe-LDH / NF) firstly grows by a hydrothermal method, and then terephthalic acid is used as an organic ligand to convert a NiFe-LDH / NF precursor template to Fe0.1-Ni-MOF / NF by a solvothermal method, and the product is used as an electrocatalyst for water oxidation reaction. The electrocatalyst shows excellent catalytic activity(eta 100mA cm-2=263mV) in 1M KOH electrolyte, which is much better than undoped Ni-MOF / NF material (eta 100mA cm-2=298mV). The invention fully utilizes the doping introduction impurity level to regulate the electronic configuration and induce the synergy effect between metals, and the highly regularly arranged layered structure nano-array reduces the series resistance, exposes more active sites and promotes the diffusion of electrolytes and evolved gases. A novel energy-transduction material with high electrocatalytic activity, good cycle stability, durability and low cost is constructed.

A photoelectrode for producing hydrogen and oxygen by photoelectro-chemically decomposing water is characterized in that the photoelectrode is composed of a photocathode and a photoanode, wherein the photocathode and a photoanode are provide with quantum dots being assembled with assistance of a double-functional molecule. The invention achieves the establishment and the application of the photoelectrode for producing hydrogen and oxygen on the basis of semiconductors, quantum dots and catalysts. The photoelectrode is high in stability, is free of a sacrificial agent, is simple in operation, is good in repeatability, is strong in universality and is high in utilization rate on visible light. In addition, the catalyst is free of requirement of noble metals, is low in cost and is easy to obtain.