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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2002
Applicant:
Robert Angelo Mercuri, Seven Hills, OH (US);
Inventor:
Robert Angelo Mercuri, Seven Hills, OH (US);
Assignee:
GrafTech International Holdings Inc., Parma, OH (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 4/96 (2006.01); H01M 4/92 (2006.01); H01M 8/10 (2006.01); C01B 31/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A catalyst support material useful in a membrane electrode assembly is presented. The support catalyst material is elongate electrically anisotropic particles of flexible graphite, and the membrane electrode assembly includes a pair of electrodes, an ion exchange membrane having opposed surfaces positioned between the electrodes and a catalyst material on the inventive support, at least a portion of an opposed surface of the ion exchange membrane being adjacent the catalyst which is supported on the elongate electrically anisotropic particles of flexible graphite sheet.