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US 11,437,476 B2Granted
Electrostatic catalysis
AssigneeBecsis, LLC
InventorsNicholas Boruta, Michael Boruta
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Abstract
An electrode having an embedded charge contains a substrate, a first electronic charge trap defined at the interface of a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer; and a first conductive layer disposed on the first electronic charge trap; wherein the first conductive layer contains a conductive material configured to permit an external electric field to penetrate the electrode from the first electronic charge trap; and wherein the first insulating layer is not the same as the second insulating layer.
Claims19
An electrode comprising:
- a substrate;
- a first insulating layer disposed adjacent to the substrate;
- a second insulating layer disposed adjacent to the first insulating layer, wherein the first insulating layer comprises different materials than the second insulating layer, wherein a plurality of charge carriers are trapped at an interface between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, and wherein the plurality of charge carriers trapped at the interface are sufficient to generate an electric field of at least 0.27 V/Å;
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- a conducting layer, wherein the conducting layer permits the electric field generated by the trapped charge carriers to penetrate the conducting layer.
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A system comprising:
- a power supply;
- a cathode electrically connected to a first terminal of the power supply, wherein the cathode comprises:
- a substrate;
- a first insulating layer disposed adjacent to the substrate;
- a second insulating layer disposed adjacent to the first insulating layer, wherein the first insulating layer comprises different materials than the second insulating layer, wherein a plurality of electrons are trapped at an interface between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, and wherein the plurality of electrons trapped at the interface are sufficient to generate an electric field of at least 0.27 V/Å;
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- a conducting layer, wherein the conducting layer permits the electric field generated by the trapped electrons to penetrate the conducting layer;
- an anode electrically connected to a second terminal of the power supply;
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- an electrolyte disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein an electric field within the electrolyte in a vicinity of the cathode is at least partially attributed to the electric field generated by the plurality of electrons trapped at the interface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.