	US 11,873,246 B2
	Glass-containing pseudo-reference electrode for use in ion-selective electrode sensors and ion selective field-effect transistors
Eben Dy, Richmond (CA); Wei Qu, Vancouver (CA); Zhong Xie, Delta (CA); Jun Shen, Richmond (CA); and Kidus Y Tufa, New Westminster (CA)
Assigned to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA
Filed by NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA, Ottawa (CA)
Filed on Apr. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/658,366.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/201,042, filed on Apr. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0332631 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. B32B 17/06 (2006.01); B32B 15/04 (2006.01); C03C 3/32 (2006.01); G01N 27/30 (2006.01); G01N 27/36 (2006.01); C03C 3/12 (2006.01); C03C 4/18 (2006.01); G01N 27/414 (2006.01)

CPC C03C 3/321 (2013.01) [C03C 3/12 (2013.01); C03C 3/32 (2013.01); C03C 3/323 (2013.01); C03C 3/325 (2013.01); C03C 4/18 (2013.01); G01N 27/301 (2013.01); G01N 27/36 (2013.01); G01N 27/414 (2013.01)]

20 Claims

1. A pseudo-reference electrode comprising a pseudo-reference glass material backed by a silver conductor comprising silver metal,

wherein the pseudo-reference glass material is:

a chalcogenide glass comprising a silver chalcogenide Ag₂Ch, wherein Ch denotes a chalcogen, or

a halide glass comprising a silver halide and at least one glass-forming oxide of a metal or a metalloid,

a mixture of two or more of these glasses, or

a composite of at least one of these glasses.