An electrode material and components therefrom for use in an electrochemical device and processes for the manufacture thereof

Abstract

Described is a process mixture for use in and/or for the manufacture of one or more dry films, an article for use in an electrochemical device, a method for making a dry film or an article for an electrochemical device. The dry films can be incorporated in an article. The article can be incorporated in an electrochemical device. The process mixture ingredients may comprise one or more reactive materials and/or reactive composites. The reactive composite may comprise one or more reactive materials and one or more matrix materials. The reactive composite or the process mixture may comprise one or more binders. The process mixture may be a dry blend or a paste. One or more binders may be fibrillizable and/or is fibrillized. The dry blend may be made from a paste. The article may comprise a dry film derived from a process mixture. The dry film may be an element of an anode and/or a cathode. The method may comprise the steps of preparing a process mixture by mixing the ingredients present in process mixture in a mixer and then forming the process mixture into the film of an article of the invention in a film former. One or more of the reactive composites, may be produced by separately mixing one or more matrix materials and one or more reactive materials in a mixer to form a wet or dry reactive composite. The method may further comprise the step of applying the film to a final substrate. The film may be sheared during film forming and/or film application to fully or partially fibrillizes some or all of the one or more fibrillizable binders. An electrochemical device may comprise any of the process mixture, dry films or articles of the invention.

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