Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120187387 | PHOTOELECTRIC ELEMENT - Disclosed is a photoelectric element having an excellent conversion efficiency and provided with a hole transporting layer that is endowed with excellent hole transporting properties and a sufficiently large reaction interface. | 07-26-2012 |
20130025683 | PHOTOELECTRIC ELEMENT - The present invention provides a photoelectric conversion element comprising: an electron transport layer which has an excellent electron transport property and a sufficient reaction interface, and having excellent conversion efficiency. In the present invention, a photoelectric conversion element comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; a stack of an electron transport layer and hole transport layer, the stack being interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; an electrolyte solution; and a conductive agent; the electron transport layer containing an organic compound having a redox moiety causing repetitive oxidation-reduction reactions, the electrolyte solution being selected to give stable reduction condition of the redox moiety, the organic compound and the electrolyte solution being cooperative to form a gel layer. Wherein the conductive agent is present within the gal layer and kept at least partly in contact with the first electrode. | 01-31-2013 |
20130145935 | ADSORPTION AND RELEASE DEVICE OF CARBON DIOXIDE - An object of the present invention is to provide a carbon dioxide adsorption and release device, which has high adsorptivity, and also consumes low energy upon adsorption and desorption. The carbon dioxide adsorption and release device is characterized by including a pair of electrodes (electrode | 06-13-2013 |
20130199614 | PHOTOELECTRIC ELEMENT, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PHOTOELECTRIC ELEMENT, AND PHOTOSENSITIZER - A photoelectric element | 08-08-2013 |
20130285043 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT - A photoelectric conversion element having high photovoltaic conversion efficiency is provided. | 10-31-2013 |
20130306954 | PHOTOELECTRIC ELEMENT - Provided is a photoelectric element that includes an electron transport layer having excellent electron transport properties and a sufficiently large reaction interface and has low resistance loss and excellent conversion efficiency between light and electricity. The photoelectric element includes a first electrode | 11-21-2013 |
20140048786 | ELECTRODE COMPOSITE AND PHOTOELECTRIC ELEMENT EQUIPPED THEREWITH - The present invention provides an electrode composite that has a reaction interface with a large area and can constitute a photoelectric element having high electron transport properties between the reaction interface and the electrode. The electrode composite of the present invention includes a first electrode and a conductive particle layer stacked on the first electrode. The conductive particle layer includes conductive particles containing acicular particles. The conductive particle layer has a three-dimensional porous network structure that is formed by the interconnection of the conductive particles. The three-dimensional network structure is joined to the first electrode. The conductive particle layer contains pores having a pore size of 50 nm or more in a total volume of 50% or more based on the volume of all pores in the conductive particle layer. | 02-20-2014 |
20140070202 | PHOTOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A photoelectric element includes a first electrode; and a second electrode positioned so as to face the first electrode; and a semiconductor disposed on a face of the first electrode, the face being positioned so as to face the second electrode; and a photosensitizer carried on the semiconductor; and a first charge-transport layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a second charge-transport layer interposed between the first charge-transport layer and the second electrode. The first charge-transport layer and the second charge-transport layer contain different oxidation-reduction materials. The oxidation-reduction material in the first charge-transport layer has an oxidation-reduction potential higher than an oxidation-reduction potential of the oxidation-reduction material in the second charge-transport layer. | 03-13-2014 |
20140102883 | CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT DEVICE - A carbon dioxide enrichment device, comprising:
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20140124757 | PHOTOELECTRIC ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - To provide a photoelectric element A including a first electrode | 05-08-2014 |
20140131197 | CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT DEVICE - A carbon dioxide enrichment device includes first and second gas diffusion electrodes; an anion exchange membrane; and an electrolytic solution partitioned by the anion exchange membrane. The electrolytic solution contains solvent and solute, and the solute is dissolved to form a dissolved inorganic carbon containing carbonic acid, hydrogen carbonate ions, or carbonic acid ions. The oxygen is consumed by an oxygen reduction reaction on the first gas diffusion electrode, whereby, a dissolved inorganic carbon is formed by a dissolution and ionization reaction of carbon dioxide in the solvent. The dissolved inorganic carbon from the solute or the dissolved inorganic carbon is transported to the second gas diffusion electrode through the anion exchange membrane, and oxygen is formed from the solvent near the second gas diffusion electrode by an oxidation reaction of the solvent on the second gas diffusion electrode, and carbon dioxide is formed from the dissolved inorganic carbon. | 05-15-2014 |
20140326603 | CARBON DIOXIDE PERMEATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF TRANSPORTING CARBON DIOXIDE - The carbon dioxide permeation device in accordance with the present invention includes a first gas diffusion electrode, a second gas diffusion electrode, an electrolyte membrane which is between the first gas diffusion electrode and the second gas diffusion electrode, and a DC power source. The carbon dioxide permeation device accelerates absorption of carbon dioxide into the electrolyte membrane from gas in a vicinity of the first gas diffusion electrode so as to decrease a carbon dioxide concentration of the gas in the vicinity of the first gas diffusion electrode, and accelerates emission of carbon dioxide from the electrolyte membrane to gas in a vicinity of the second gas diffusion electrode by causing an oxidation reaction of water in the electrolyte membrane so as to enrich carbon dioxide in the gas in the vicinity of the second gas diffusion electrode. | 11-06-2014 |