US4500647A
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Three layer laminated matrix electrode
Assignee: Eltech Systems Corp
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Filing: 1982-09-28
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Granted: 1985-02-19
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Expires: 2002-09-28
Abstract
Abstract The disclosure is directed to preparing three-layer laminated "matrix" electrodes suitable for use as oxygen (air) cathodes in chlor-alkali and other electrochemical cells, fuel cells and in other electrochemical applications. The term "matrix" as used herein means that the active carbon particles are present within an unsintered network of carbon black-PTFE (fibrillated) material. This three-layer laminated electrode includes a porous, coherent, hydrophobic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)-containing backing (wet proofing) layer, with or without carbon black therein, in contact with the non-working surface of a "matrix" active layer containing catalyzed or uncatalyzed active carbon particles present within an unsintered network of fibrilliated carbon black-PTFE and an electroconductive current distributor laminated to the working surface of said active layer, and to a process for making said laminate.
Inventors
- 👤 Frank Solomon
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 12:51
CPC Classifications
C; C25; C25B; C25B11/00; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T156/00; Y10T156/10
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
135 words
A method for making a laminated electrode comprising preparing an active layer by intimately mixing carbon black particles with an aqueous dispersion of polytetrafluoroethylene particles, drying the resultant mixture at temperatures in the range of from about 250° to 325° C., thoroughly incorporating into the thus dried PTFE/carbon black mixture enough deashed active carbon particles which have been impregnated with a minor amount of a precious metal catalyst to form an intimate mix containing about 40 to 80% of said active carbon particles based upon the combined weight of same and the dried PTFE/carbon black, fibrillating said intimate mix and forming the resultant fibrillated mix into an active layer, and laminating the working surface of said active layer to a current distributor and the opposite surface thereof to a porous, coherent, hydrophobic polytetrafluoroethylene-containing wetproofing layer.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
135 words
A method for making a laminated electrode comprising preparing an active layer by intimately mixing carbon black particles with an aqueous dispersion of polytetrafluoroethylene particles, drying the resultant mixture at temperatures in the range of from about 250° to 325° C., thoroughly incorporating into the thus dried PTFE/carbon black mixture enough deashed active carbon particles which have been impregnated with a minor amount of a precious metal catalyst to form an intimate mix containing about 40 to 80% of said active carbon particles based upon the combined weight of same and the dried PTFE/carbon black, fibrillating said intimate mix and forming the resultant fibrillated mix into an active layer, and laminating the working surface of said active layer to a current distributor and the opposite surface thereof to a porous, coherent, hydrophobic polytetrafluoroethylene-containing wetproofing layer.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
28 words
A method as in claim 1, wherein said intimate mix also contains from about 25 to about 50% based on its total weight of a pore-forming bulking agent.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
38 words
A method as in claim 1 wherein said carbon black particles have a particle size ranging from about 50 to about 3000 angstroms and a surface area ranging from about 25 to about 300 square meters per gram.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
14 words
A method as in claim 3 wherein said carbon black is an acetylene black.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
13 words
A method as in claim 1 wherein said active carbon particles contain silver.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
13 words
A method as in claim 1 wherein said active carbon particles contain platinum.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
21 words
A method as in claim 1 wherein said active carbon particles range in size from about 1 to about 30 microns.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
48 words
A method as in claim 1 wherein said dried PTFE/carbon black mixture contains from about 65 to about 75 wt. parts of carbon black and from about 35 to about 25 wt. parts of polytetrafluoroethylene per 100 total wt. parts of carbon black and polytetrafluoroethylene in said component.
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