Group Intellectual Property

Provisional Patents

3. Reactor Designs for Photocatalytic O₂ Evolution from Water with Integrated Green H₂ Compression.
         S. Ardo, C. Xiang, D. V. Esposito
         Intellectual Property, University of California, Irvine 2024 (priority year); Publication number: 2025-788-1

2. Catalyst-modified gas-liquid contactors for rapid carbon capture.
         S. Ardo, M. Yang, C. Xiang, H. A. Atwater
         Intellectual Property, California Institute of Technology 2024 (priority year); Publication number: CIT-9193-P2

1. Polymer-bonded reversible excited-state photoacids and photobases as dynamic fluorescence sensors of protonic species and water activity.
         S. Ardo, N. A. Gomez, S. Chang
         Intellectual Property, University of California, Irvine 2024 (priority year); Publication number: 2025-759-1

Patents

12. Systems and methods for electrochemical hydrogen looping.
          H. A. Atwater, Z. Schiffer, C. Xiang, S. Ardo
          Intellectual Property, California Institute of Technology 2022 (priority year); Publication number: US20240133051 A1

11. Photocatalyst suspension reactor for solar fuel formation.
          S. Ardo, D. V. Esposito, R. Bala Chandran, J. M. Mayer, L. Barrera, Z. Chen, B. D. James, Y. Acevedo, J. Huya-Kouadio
          Intellectual Property, University of California, Irvine 2022 (priority year); Publication number: US20230390724 A1

10. Reversible excited-state photoacids and photobases as dynamic fluorescence sensors of protonic species.
          A. E. Böhme, A. J. Welch, R. Bhide, C. N. Feltenberger, D. Tang, S. Ardo, H. A. Atwater
          Intellectual Property, California Institute of Technology 2022 (priority year); Publication number: US20230358677 A1

9. Systems and methods for gas-liquid contactors for rapid carbon capture.
         C. Xiang, S. Ardo, L. Schulte, I. A. Digdaya, Z. Chen, A. Bender, H. A. Atwater
         Intellectual Property, California Institute of Technology 2021 (priority year); Publication number: US20230107163 A1

8. Ratchet-based ion pumping membrane systems.
         S. Ardo, G. Segev, F. M. Toma, J. W. Ager III, R. Kautz, D. M. Larson
         Intellectual Property, University of California, Irvine 2019 (priority year); Publication number: US20210187442 A1

7. Membranes for enhancing rates of water dissociation and water formation.
         S. Ardo, W. White, L. A. Renna, R. Bhide, L. Schulte, G. S. Phun
         Intellectual Property, University of California, Irvine 2019 (priority year); Publication number: US20210046423 A1

6. Optically thin light-absorbers for increasing photochemical energy-conversion efficiencies.
         S. Ardo, S. Keene, G. S. Phun
         Intellectual Property, University of California, Irvine 2018 (priority year); Publication number: US20200140293 A1

5. Systems and methods for integrated solar photodialysis.
         S. Ardo, E. Schwartz, J. Liu, J. M. Cardon, W. White, K. Tkacz, L. A. Renna, L. Schulte, R. Bhide, M. A. Modestino, D. Blanco, C. D. Sanborn, R. S. Reiter
         Intellectual Property, University of California, Irvine 2018 (priority year); Publication number: US20190217255 A1

4. Light-driven ion-pumping membrane systems.
         S. Ardo, W. White, C. D. Sanborn, J. M. Cardon, R. S. Reiter, E. Schwartz
         Intellectual Property, University of California, Irvine 2016 (priority year); Publication number: US20180065095 A1

3. Light-Driven Hydroiodic Acid Splitting from Semiconductive Fuel Generator.
         S. Ardo and N. S. Lewis
         Intellectual Property, California Institute of Technology 2012 (priority year); Publication number: US20140061057 A1

2. Semiconductor Structures for Fuel Generation.
         S. Ardo, M. Shaner, R. Coridan, N. C. Strandwitz, J. R. McKone, K. Fountaine, H. A. Atwater, N. S. Lewis
         Intellectual Property, California Institute of Technology 2012 (priority year); Publication number: US20130269761 A1

1. A Tandem Solar Cell using a Silicon Microwire Array and Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Layer.
         S. Ardo and N. S. Lewis
         Intellectual Property, California Institute of Technology 2011 (priority year); Publication number: US20130174896 A1