Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photocatalyst electrode and artificial photosynthesis module
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Application No.: US16005038Application Date: 2018-06-11
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Publication No.: US10258971B2Publication Date: 2019-04-16
- Inventor: Hiroyuki Kobayashi
- Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation , Japan Technological Research Association of Artificial Photosynthetic Chemical Process
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation,JAPAN TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC CHEMICAL PROCESS
- Current Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation,JAPAN TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC CHEMICAL PROCESS
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2015-249499 20151222
- Main IPC: B01J27/045
- IPC: B01J27/045 ; B01J35/02 ; C01B3/04 ; C25B1/04 ; C25B9/00 ; C25B9/16 ; C25B11/04 ; H01L31/0216

Abstract:
A photocatalyst electrode decomposes water with light to generate gas. The photocatalyst electrode has a laminate including a substrate, a conductive layer provided on a surface of the substrate, and a photocatalyst layer provided on a surface of the conductive layer, and a first co-catalyst electrically connected to the photocatalyst layer. The light is incident from the surface side of the photocatalyst layer of the laminate, and in a case where a region where the light is incident on the surface of the photocatalyst layer and above the surface is defined as a first region and the region other than the first region is defined as a second region, the first co-catalyst is provided at least in the second region. The first co-catalyst and the photocatalyst layer are electrically connected to each other by at least one of a transparent conductive layer provided on the surface of the photocatalyst layer or a wiring line.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180290129A1 PHOTOCATALYST ELECTRODE AND ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS MODULE Public/Granted day:2018-10-11
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