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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2014
Paul Gregory O'brien, Toronto, CA;
Geoffrey Alan Ozin, Toronto, CA;
Paul Gregory O'Brien, Toronto, CA;
Geoffrey Alan Ozin, Toronto, CA;
Other;
Abstract
A combined catalyst and catalyst support comprising: a nanostructured solar selective support to which at least one catalyst is affixed; the catalyst comprising at least one material that activates chemical reactions that produce fuels; the nanostructured solar selective support comprising material that is highly absorbing over a portion of the solar spectrum and exhibits low emissivity toward thermal radiation and/or has a surface textured to lower emissivity; the combined catalyst and catalyst support exhibiting at least one of a photochemical effect and a photothermal effect; wherein these effects cause the chemical reaction rates to increase with exposure to an increasing number of incident photons within the solar spectrum.