Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Electrical device making
Patent
1997-04-11
2000-05-16
Nuzzolillo, Maria
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Electrical device making
429223, 429235, 429245, H01M 426, H01M 466
Patent
active
060631430
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates in general to processes for producing electrodes for chemical sources of electric energy, predominantly for electrodes of storage batteries. More specifically the invention relates to a process for producing such electrodes having a polymer material as the base thereof. The invention covers also the electrodes produced with the use of the process proposed therein.
BACKGROUND ART
The present state of the art knows polymer-based electrodes for chemical sources of electric energy. Application for French Patent No.2,472,842 of 1981 can be adduced as an example. According to said application the electrode is made of a metal-coated substrate on which an active material is deposited.
One of the heretofore-known processes for producing such electrodes disclosed in FRAG Patent No.4,004,106 of 1991, consists of preliminary activation of the substrate made of polymer materials, in particular, an unwoven web from polyolefinic fibres, in a solution containing tin and palladium, followed by coating the substrate with nickel by chemical formation and electroplating.
However, the aforesaid known process for producing polymer-based electrodes suffers from a number of disadvantages, which are first and foremost due to the use of a large amount of highly expensive palladium for activating the fibrous polymer material that has a highly developed surface.
Moreover, the following formation of a metal coating on the thus-preconditioned material is likely to involve penetration of palladium particles from the polymer surface into the metal-coating solution, with the resultant decomposition of the latter.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has for its principal object to provide a novel process for producing polymer-based electrodes, wherein a necessity for use of expensive materials is dispensed with.
The foregoing object is accomplished due to the fact that proposed for the first time is the use of cation-exchange fibrous materials that have not so far been used for the purpose. This in turn makes it possible to activate the surface by saturating it with the ions of the same metal, i.e., nickel with which the substrate is afterwards coated.
By and large the process for producing electrodes based on the present invention is as follows. A fibrous polymer material having a cation exchange capacity of 0.5 to 6.0 mg-eq/g is taken. The material can be treated with a sodium bicarbonate solution beforehand.
Used as sources of nickel ions may be a nickel sulfate solution, wherein the polymer is held for a period of time enough for material to be saturated with nickel ions. Thereupon the material activated with nickel ions is treated, for 0.5 to 30 minutes, with an aqueous solution of boron hydride of an alkali metal having a concentration of 0.1 to 1.2 g/l at 15-70.degree. C. As a result, the sorbed nickel is reduced.
Then the thus-treated blanks are nickel-coated by conventional chemical formation and electroplating techniques.
EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
The essence of the present invention will hereinafter be illustrated in the following exemplary embodiment thereof.
Example 1
Used as a polymer fibrous cation-exchange material is an unwoven needle-pierced felt based on radiation-grafted polypropylene having an ion-exchange capacity of 5 mg-eq/g with respect to nickel, a fiber diameter of 36 mcm, a porosity of 87%, and a thickness of 5 mm. The aforesaid material is immersed in a 2% aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution and held therein for an hour, whereupon the material is washed with deionized water and saturated with nickel ions by being treated with a 3% nickel sulfate solution for half an hour. Once having been washed the nickel-saturated blanks are treated for 15 min at 30.degree. C. with a sodium boron hydride solution with a concentration of 0.5 g/l.
After having been treated as described before the blanks develop a dark-grey color. The thus-activated blanks are chemically nickel-coated at room temperature in a solution of the following compositio
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Menukhov Vladimir Vasilievich
Stepanov Aleksei Borisovich
Varakin Igor Nikolaevich
Aktsionernoe Obschestvo Zakrytogo Tipa "Elton"
Crepeau Jonathan
Nuzzolillo Maria
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