Expedited chemical reactions at curved microscale interfaces between water and a hydrophobic medium
AssigneesThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
InventorsChanbasha Basheer, Xiaowei Song, Yu Xia, Richard N. Zare
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Chemical reactions are expedited by exploiting contact electrification at curved microscale interfaces between water and a hydrophobic medium. The hydrophobic medium can be a solid, liquid, or gas. The microscale-interfaces can be surfaces of water droplets in contact with a hydrophobic medium, such as a gas, liquid, or solid, or they can be surfaces of gas microbubbles in contact with water alone or with water containing solid or liquid hydrophobic particles.
Claims10
A method for performing a chemical reaction, the method comprising:
- delivering two or more reagents to a curved microscale interface between water and a hydrophobic medium;
- wherein contact electrification at the curved micro-scale interface generates H atoms and OH radicals to make the chemical reaction happen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.