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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 1981
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1980
Christopher R Needes, Newark, DE (US);
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An improved electrode having a surface mixture of nickel and porous nickel produced by applying a paste mixture of NiAl.sub.2 and Ni.sub.3 B together with a vehicle to a substrate. After burning off the vehicle and firing in air at a temperature of 450.degree. to 650.degree. C. and thereafter sintering at a temperature of 800.degree. to 900.degree. C. in nitrogen, the coating on the substrate contains Ni.sub.2 Al.sub.3, NiAl.sub.2 B and nickel together with a thin overlayer of B.sub.2 O.sub.3. After removing the intermetallic aluminum, boron and boron oxide by dissolution with sodium hydroxide, the surface of the substrate contains Raney nickel supported on a structure of nickel. The resulting electrodes can be used as cathodes in water or brine electrolysis cells.