Component having improved surface contact resistance and reaction activity and methods of making the same
AssigneeTreadstone Technologies, Inc.
InventorConghua Wang
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Abstract
A component for an electrochemical device, the component including: a metallic substrate; and a plurality of particles bonded to a surface of the substrate by a metallurgical bond, wherein the particles include a metal, carbon, or a combination thereof, wherein the metallurgical bond is between the particles and the substrate, wherein a total projected area of the metallurgical bond is less than 90% of a total projected area of the substrate, and wherein the metallurgical bond has a composition which is a combination of a composition of the metallic substrate and a composition of the particle, a reaction product of the metallic substrate and the particle, or a combination thereof.
Claims20
A component for an electrochemical device, the component comprising:
- a substrate comprising a porous carbon material;
- and
- a mixture of
- a plurality of particles comprising carbon, and
- a plurality of particles comprising metal bonded to a surface of the substrate,
- wherein the particles comprising carbon are bonded to the surface of the substrate by the particles comprising metal through a metallurgical bond comprising a carbide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.