Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus – product – and – With pressure equalizing means for liquid immersion operation
Patent
1998-05-21
2000-08-15
Kalafut, Stephen
Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and
With pressure equalizing means for liquid immersion operation
429 33, 429210, 4284111, H01M 648, H01M 824
Patent
active
061034134
ABSTRACT:
A bipolar separator plate for two electrochemical cells connected in series, the plate having two layers of a porous electronically conductive material having positioned therebetween a solid layer of a polymeric material having dispersed therein at least 1 percent by weight of a conductive filler, wherein the plate has an area resistivity of less than 1 ohm-cm.sup.2, and wherein the solid layer has a permeability of less than 50 .mu.Darcy (.mu.D).
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Hinton Carlos E.
Mussell Robert D.
Scortichini Carey L.
Kalafut Stephen
The Dow Chemical Company
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