U.S. Nanocorp, Inc.

Sandia Corporation

Inframat Corporation

Hui Ye

Tongsan D Xiao

David E Reisner

Ronald A Guidotti

Daniel H Doughty

Peter R Strutt

You Wang

Christopher Strock

Thin cathodes are presented, For example, a cathode includes a substrate; and a layer of a nanostructured pyrite active material deposited on the substrate, wherein the layer of the nanostructured pyrite has a thickness in the range from about 1 to about 1000 microns. The cathodes find particular utility in thermal batteries.

Energy storage and conversion devices using thermal sprayed electrodes

Thin electrodes produced by thermal spray techniques are presented, wherein the thermal spray feedstock comprises an active material and a protective barrier coating. In a particularly advantageous feature, the active material feedstock is a metal sulfide, metal selenide, or metal telluride which ordinarily decomposes at thermal spray temperatures or which transforms to a material unsuitable for use as an electrode at thermal spray temperatures. The electrodes find particular utility in thermal batteries.

A method for the deposition of solid lubricant coatings onto a substrate, comprising thermally spraying a powder comprising agglomerates of a solid lubricant coated with sulfur. Preferably, the solid lubricant is a sulfide. The coatings find particular utility on rollers used in the manufacture of steel.

Solid lubricant coatings produced by thermal spray methods

A method for the synthesis of an electrode, and the resulting article therefrom, comprising coating an active material feedstock with an additive material suitable for preventing thermal decomposition of said feedstock during thermal spray, thermal spraying the coated feedstock onto a substrate for an electrode, thereby forming a coating on the substrate, thereby providing an electrode.

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