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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2022
Lawrence Livermore National Security, Llc, Livermore, CA (US);
Victor Alfred Beck, Livermore, CA (US);
Sarah Baker, Dublin, CA (US);
Jonathan Tesner Davis, Oakland, CA (US);
Eric Duoss, Dublin, CA (US);
Daniel Tortorelli, Champaign, IL (US);
Seth Evan Watts, Collingswood, NJ (US);
Marcus A. Worsley, Hayward, CA (US);
LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC, Livermore, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are electrochemical reactors with electrodes that have variable porosity across the electrode. The electrodes are designed and micro-architected to have variable porosity and 3D flow. In one aspect, an electrochemical cell apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an electrochemical vessel and an electrochemical fluid contained in the electrochemical vessel. The apparatus further includes a porous electrode submerged in the electrochemical fluid in the electrochemical vessel, the porous electrode having different porosities in different areas of the porous electrode. The different porosities inhibit electrochemical fluid flow and increase electrical conductivity in first areas of the porous electrode with decreased porosity compared to second areas, and enable increased electrochemical fluid flow and decrease electrical conductivity in the second areas of the porous electrode with increased porosity compared to the first areas.