The patents of a company that goes bankrupt are not lost, they become public domain.

Jed Kraiem PhD and Oleksiy Nichiporuk PhD are 2/3 of the founding members of Novacium, they are both named as the inventors on the Apollon portable hydrogen production device patent. They know how the device works, they certainly know how to build it, and they probably know how to improve it.

Jed Kraiem is also one of the inventors named on the Apollon process for manufacturing silicon-based nanoparticles by electrochemical etching of a substrate.

Below are snippets taken from an old HPQ press release I believe still apples to today’s situation.

The objective of the collaboration is to take full advantage of the ability to produce nanoscale silicon materials at low cost using HPQ’s PUREVAPTM Nano Silicon Reactor ("NSiR"), while seeking to determine whether the use of silicon produced by HPQ’s PUREVAPTM Quartz Reduction Reactor ("QRR"), as the raw material for the Apollon process, will lead to the economically viable production of high-quality porous silicon.

Economically viable green renewable energy The work plan for the upcoming months is to produce porous silicon samples with the Apollon process for research centres and industrial companies interested in using them in the manufacture of future generation Li-Ion batteries and supercapacitor development, as well as to collaborate on the development of protocols for encapsulating porous silicon and nanoscale silicon materials produced with HPQ’s Nano PUREVAPTM NSiR process in carbon. The partners will also use this time to compare the technical and commercial potential of nanoscale and porous silicon materials to create new generations of environmentally friendly powders with better performance for hydrogen production.  

Porous silicon, a promising material Porous silicon is a structure of silicon (Si) in which nanopores have been formed by anodization through electrochemical etching. The currently available anodization processes all use very high purity silicon (9N to 11N) as a raw material, which makes the cost of porous silicon prohibitive. To reduce the production costs of porous silicon, Apollon has developed and patented worldwide an electrochemical anodizing process capable of using silicon (2N to 4N+) to make porous silicon. By using HPQ's PUREVAP TM QRR, a silicon (2N to 4N+) with the lowest manufacturing cost in the industry, as the raw material for Apollon's patented porosification process, it becomes possible to contemplate the economically viable production of porous silicon.