Electrochemical cell with powdered electrically insulative material as a separator

Patent · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:863063

Mathers, James P ^[1]; Olszanski, Theodore W ^[2]; Boquist, Carl W ^[3]

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1. Downers Grove, IL
2. Justice, IL
3. Chicago, IL

A secondary electrochemical cell includes electrodes separated by a layer of electrically insulative powder. The powder includes refractory materials selected from the oxides and nitrides of metals and metaloids. The powdered refractory material, blended with electrolyte particles, can be compacted in layers with electrode materials to form an integral electrode structure or separately assembled into the cell. The assembled cell is heated to operating temperature leaving porous layers of electrically insulative, refractory particles, containing molten electrolyte between the electrodes.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4086396
• OSTI ID: 863063
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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