Powder metallurgy processes – Powder metallurgy processes with heating or sintering – Liquid phase sintering
Patent
1990-07-16
1992-06-23
Hunt, Brooks H.
Powder metallurgy processes
Powder metallurgy processes with heating or sintering
Liquid phase sintering
419 57, B22F 310
Patent
active
051241200
ABSTRACT:
A method for making zinc electrodes for alkaline-zinc batteries comprising the steps of: mixing an amount of a zinc-magnesium binder alloy with an amount of a material chosen from zinc and a second zinc-magnesium alloy to form a mechanical mixture. The melting temperature of the material is at least 15 Celsius degrees higher than the melting temperature of the binder alloy. The mixture is applied to a current collector and the current collector with applied mixture is heated to a temperature at which incipient melting of the binder alloy causes sintering of the mixture with the formation of a coherent layer solidly bonded to the current collector. The compositions and the amount of the binder alloy and the second alloy are selected such that the active material in the layer of the electrode contains no more than about 15% magnesium, preferably no more than about 10% magnesium. In various embodiments, a binder alloy containing 45% to 55% Mg is eutectically sintered with zinc or a second alloy containing from >0% to about 10% Mg, a binder alloy containing about 3% to 4% Mg is eutectically sintered with a second alloy containing either about 20% to 43% Mg is eutectically sintered with a second alloy containing either about 20% to 43% Mg or about 52% to 80% Mg, and a binder alloy containing either about 41% to 50% Mg or containing about 1.5% to 3% is eutectically sintered with zinc.
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Rensing Hans
Sklarchuck Jack
Cominco Ltd.
Fors Arne I.
Hunt Brooks H.
Jenkins Daniel J.
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