C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 25 – B
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
25
B
345/13, 345/22,
C25B 1/00 (2006.01) B01J 19/12 (2006.01) C01B 3/04 (2006.01) H01G 9/20 (2006.01) H01M 14/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1096021
ABSTRACT OF THE INVENTION Photochemical diodes are provided which use light to drive both endoergic and exoergic chemical reactions such that optical energy is converted into chemical energy. The photo- chemical diodes are typically suspended in a bulk volume matrix of the constituant chemical reactants. The photochemical diodes, in the form of either Schottky-type diodes or p-n type diodes, are employed, for example, to convert water into hydrogen plus oxygen (or hydrogen peroxide); to convert hydrogen sulfide into hydrogen plus sulfur; and to photo-catalyze chemical reactions. The photochemical diodes of the invention comprises two portions, a first portion comprising an appropriately doped semiconductor material of a given conductivity and provided with an ohmic contact and a second portion comprising either metal (Schottky-type) or an appropriately doped semiconductor material of a conductivity type opposite so that of the first portion and provided with an ohmic contact (p-n type). The two portions are intimately joined together through the ohmic contact(s). Solar radiation is conveniently employed as a source of optical energy.
286048
Allied Chemical Corporation
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
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