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Oxide bronze materials
Assignee: BTG International Ltd
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Filing: 1986-09-02
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Granted: 1989-04-25
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Expires: 2006-09-02
Abstract
Abstract An oxide bronze host material is a solid solution of a first oxide component comprising molybdenum oxide (MoO 3 ), tungsten oxide (WO 3 ), zirconium oxide (ZrO), niobium oxide (Nb 2 O 5 ) or any two or more thereof and a second oxide component comprising vanadium oxide (V 2 O 5 ) and/or titanium oxide (TiO 2 ), the formula ratio of the first and second oxide components being selected such that the host material is capable of accepting guest atoms when incorporated in an electrochemical cell, said guest atoms altering the spectral characteristics of the host material without producing substantial visible color change in thin layers of the host material. Such a material may be used as a thin layer (12) in an electrochemical variable optical density window further including electrode layers (11, 15) on glass supports (10, 16) and an electrochromic oxide bronze layer (14) spaced from the layer (12) by an electrolyte layer (13a, 13b).
Inventors
- 👤 Mino Green
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-04 19:14
CPC Classifications
C; C01; C01G; C01G31/00; C01G31/006; C01G25/00; C01G25/006; C01G39/00; C01G39/006; C01G41/00; C01G41/006; G; G02; G02F; G02F1/00; G02F1/01; G02F1/15; G02F1/1514; G02F1/1523; G02F1/1524; C01P; C01P2004/00; C01P2004/80; C01P2006/00; C01P2006/60
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 19
Claim 1
Independent Claim
165 words
An oxide bronze material comprising a host oxide material containing guest metal atoms which can be reversibly removed from the host material when the host material is incorporated in a suitable electrochemical cell, which oxide bronze material has an absorption band for electromagnetic radiation which has an intensity dependent on the concentration of guest metal atoms in the oxide bronze material, and which material can be formed as thin, substantially transparent layers which do not undergo any substantial visible color change upon the reduction to substantially zero of said guest atom concentration, wherein the host material is a solid solution of a first oxide component selected from the group consisting of molybdenum oxide (MoO 3 ), tungsten oxide (WO 3 ), zirconium oxide (ZrO 2 ), niobium oxide (Nb 2 O 5 ) and mixtures of at least two thereof and a second oxide component selected from the group consisting of vanadium oxide (V 2 O 5 ) titanium oxide (TiO 2 and mixtures thereof.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
165 words
An oxide bronze material comprising a host oxide material containing guest metal atoms which can be reversibly removed from the host material when the host material is incorporated in a suitable electrochemical cell, which oxide bronze material has an absorption band for electromagnetic radiation which has an intensity dependent on the concentration of guest metal atoms in the oxide bronze material, and which material can be formed as thin, substantially transparent layers which do not undergo any substantial visible color change upon the reduction to substantially zero of said guest atom concentration, wherein the host material is a solid solution of a first oxide component selected from the group consisting of molybdenum oxide (MoO 3 ), tungsten oxide (WO 3 ), zirconium oxide (ZrO 2 ), niobium oxide (Nb 2 O 5 ) and mixtures of at least two thereof and a second oxide component selected from the group consisting of vanadium oxide (V 2 O 5 ) titanium oxide (TiO 2 and mixtures thereof.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
16 words
An oxide bronze as claimed in claim 1 wherein the guest atoms are alkali metal atoms.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
23 words
An oxide bronze as claimed in claim 2 wherein the guest atoms are selected from the group consisting of lithium, sodium and potassium.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
142 words
An oxide bronze of the general formula M.sup.1.sub.x (M.sup.2 O.sub.a).sub.y (M.sup.3 O.sub.b).sub.z wherein M 1 is an alkali metal; M 2 is selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, tungsten, zirconium, niobium and mixtures of at least two thereof; M 3 is selected from the group consisting of vanadium, titanium and mixtures thereof; a and b are sufficient to satisfy the valencies of M 2 and M 3 in their highest oxidation states; y+z=1; and x is from 0.05 to 0.4, which oxide bronze material has an absorption band for electromagnetic radiation which has an intensity dependent on the concentration of alkali metal atoms in the oxide bronze material, and which material can be formed as thin, substantially transparent layers which do not undergo any substantial visible color change upon the reduction to substantially zero of said alkali metal atom content X.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
142 words
An oxide bronze of the general formula M.sup.1.sub.x (M.sup.2 O.sub.a).sub.y (M.sup.3 O.sub.b).sub.z wherein M 1 is an alkali metal; M 2 is selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, tungsten, zirconium, niobium and mixtures of at least two thereof; M 3 is selected from the group consisting of vanadium, titanium and mixtures thereof; a and b are sufficient to satisfy the valencies of M 2 and M 3 in their highest oxidation states; y+z=1; and x is from 0.05 to 0.4, which oxide bronze material has an absorption band for electromagnetic radiation which has an intensity dependent on the concentration of alkali metal atoms in the oxide bronze material, and which material can be formed as thin, substantially transparent layers which do not undergo any substantial visible color change upon the reduction to substantially zero of said alkali metal atom content X.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
31 words
An oxide bronze as claimed in claim 4 of the general formula Mx(MoO 3 ) y (V 2 O 5 ) z wherein (y+z)=1, and x is from 0.05 to 0.4.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
15 words
An oxide bronze as claimed in claim 5 wherein x is from 0.05 to 0.2.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
13 words
An oxide bronze as claimed in claim 5 wherein x is about 0.1.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
193 words
An electrochromic device comprising an electrochemical cell including a layer of a first metal-sensitive compound capable of reversibly receiving guest metal atoms and which changes color in so doing, a layer of an oxide bronze material acting as a source of and sink for said guest atoms, and, between the said layers, a layer of an electrolyte in which a mobile charge carrier is an ion of said guest atoms so that said guest atoms are transferrable reversibly from the first metal-sensitive compound to the oxide bronze material wherein the layer of said oxide bronze material exhibits no substantial visible color change upon the substantial variation of the guest atom concentration therein, and comprises a host of material for said guest atoms which is a solid solution of a first oxide component selected from the group consisting of molybdenum oxide (MoO 3 ), tungsten oxide (WO 3 ), zirconium oxide (ZrO 2 ), niobium oxide (Nb 2 O 5 ) and mixtures of at least two thereof and a second oxide component selected from the group consisting of vanadium oxide (V 2 O 5 ) titanium oxide (TiO 2 ) and mixtures thereof.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
193 words
An electrochromic device comprising an electrochemical cell including a layer of a first metal-sensitive compound capable of reversibly receiving guest metal atoms and which changes color in so doing, a layer of an oxide bronze material acting as a source of and sink for said guest atoms, and, between the said layers, a layer of an electrolyte in which a mobile charge carrier is an ion of said guest atoms so that said guest atoms are transferrable reversibly from the first metal-sensitive compound to the oxide bronze material wherein the layer of said oxide bronze material exhibits no substantial visible color change upon the substantial variation of the guest atom concentration therein, and comprises a host of material for said guest atoms which is a solid solution of a first oxide component selected from the group consisting of molybdenum oxide (MoO 3 ), tungsten oxide (WO 3 ), zirconium oxide (ZrO 2 ), niobium oxide (Nb 2 O 5 ) and mixtures of at least two thereof and a second oxide component selected from the group consisting of vanadium oxide (V 2 O 5 ) titanium oxide (TiO 2 ) and mixtures thereof.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
33 words
An electrochromic device as claimed in claim 8 wherein the electrolyte is a solid electrolyte which is a fast ion conductor in which a fast ion is an ion of said guest atoms.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
29 words
An electrochromic device as claimed claim 8 further comprising first and second electrode layers between which the electrochromic material layer, electrolyte layer and said oxide bronze layer are disposed.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
27 words
An oxide bronze material as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first oxide component is selected from the group consisting of MoO 3 and WO 3 .
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
20 words
An oxide bronze material as claimed in claim 11 wherein the second oxide component is V 2 O 5 .
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
25 words
An oxide bronze material as claimed in claim 1 wherein the formula ratio of said first and second oxide components is from 10:1 to 1:10.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
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An oxide bronze material as claimed in claim 13 wherein the said ratio is from 3:1 to 1:3.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
15 words
An oxide bronze material as claimed in claim 14 wherein said ratio is approximately 1:1.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
39 words
An oxide bronze material as claimed in claim 1 which is a solid solution comprising MoO 3 and V 2 O 5 , the formula ratio of MoO 3 to V 2 O 5 being from 3:1 to 1:3.
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