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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 1983
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1980
Alvin Skopp, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
George Ciprios, Freehold, NJ (US);
John S Batzold, Union, NJ (US);
Exxon Research and Engineering Co., Florham Park, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention encompasses the use of a specific fuel fed electrode in depositing metals from solutions thereof and in the absence of an external applied potential. Basically as shown in FIG. 1, the electrode comprises an electrically conductive porous substrate 3 bearing on one surface thereof a fuel activating catalyst 4. The porosity of the substrate is sufficient that the current density at surface 2 of the substrate 3 opposite the catalyst 4 will assure substantially complete depletion of metal ions very near the surface of the porous substrate, whereby the catalyst surface and the pores remain substantially free of deposited metal.