US Patent Issued to Paul Scherrer Institut on Dec. 30 for "Co-electrolysis cell design for efficient CO2 reduction from gas phase at low temperature" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,782, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Paul Scherrer Institut (Villigen PSI, Switzerland).

"Co-electrolysis cell design for efficient CO2 reduction from gas phase at low temperature" was invented by Alexandra Patru (Windisch, Switzerland), Thomas Justus Schmidt (Kleindoettingen, Switzerland), Tobias Binninger (Zurich) and Bernhard Pribyl (Turgi, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane electrode assembly for an electrochemical cell, in particular a co-electrolysis cell for CO2 reduction reaction, can overcome the problem of parasitic CO2 pumping from cathode to anode side and, at the same time, maintain good Faradaic ef...