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MATERIALS: Ceramic Composite Separates Hydrogen.

Fuel Cell Technology News, August, 2003

A team of researchers at the Ceramics Section, Energy Technology Division, (Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439: Tel: 630/252-2000) has patented a high flow rate sintered composite ceramic/metal membrane and an improved method for separating hydrogen from fluids without using electrical power or circuitry.

In U.S. Patent 6,569,226, inventors Stephen Dorris, Tae Lee and Uthamalingam Balachandran describe the monolithic membrane as made from a homogeneous mixture of ceramic and hydrogen transporting metals with no interconnected porosity. The metal may be palladium, niobium, tantalum, vanadium, or zirconium or a binary mixture of palladium with another metal such as niobium, silver, tantalum, vanadium, or zirconium.

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