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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 1978
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1976
William A Armstrong, Ottawa, Ontario, CA;
Other;
Abstract
An improved gas permeable hydrophobic electrode and its method of manufacture is provided. The electrode includes (a) a current collecting grid formed of an electrically conductive metal, e.g. platinum, gold, stainless steel, nickel-clad iron, nickel wire mesh, silver wire mesh, expanded nickel, or expanded silver; (b) a noble metal catalyst, e.g. silver, platinum or palladium catalyst deposited on, and adhered to, both side faces of the current collecting grid, e.g. the nickel grid, such noble metal catalyst, e.g. silver, having been deposited in situ on a fugitive substrate, e.g. aluminum foil, from a paste of an aqueous suspension of a water-soluble metal salt, e.g. silver salt, a fluorocarbon polymer, e.g. polytetrafluoroethylene, a wetting agent, e.g. octyl phenoxpolyethoxyethanol and activated carbon, which is subsequently dried and cured at a temperature not exceeding about 150.degree. C.; and (c) a hydrophobic semi-permeable membrane, e.g. a fibrous polytetrafluoroethylene membrane or a microporous polypropylene membrane on one side of such coated grid. The improved method of manufacture involves applying the above-noted paste to a fugitive substrate and then drying and curing such paste at a temperature not exceeding about 150.degree. C.