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US 4,285,796 AGranted
Electrolysis electrode
AssigneesUniversity of Virginia, Research Corporation
InventorsGlenn E. Stoner, George L. Cahen, Jr.
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Abstract
An electrode, which comprises an electrically conductive current collector, and a working surface containing a multiplicity of conductive islands in a non-conducting matrix wherein the majority of said islands are in electrically conductive contact with said current collector wherein the average size of said conductive islands and the average spacing between said conductive islands are of the same order of magnitude as the diffusion layer of the solution intended to be treated when said electrode is immersed into said solution.
Claims4
An electrode, which comprises:
- an electrically conductive current collector;
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- a working surface containing a multiplicity of conductive islands in a non-conducting matrix wherein the majority of said islands are in electrically conductive contact with said current collector wherein the average size of said conductive islands ranging from 3-30 .mu.m and the average spacing between said conductive islands ranging from 3-50 .mu.m are of the same order of magnitude as the diffusion layer of the solution intended to be treated when said electrode is immersed into said solution, said surface having fixed thereto on the non-conducting matrix thereof, an enzyme, thereby rendering said electrode capable of simultaneously effecting enzymatic and electrolytic reactions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.