Electrochemically stable cathode
AssigneeLockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
InventorsKeh-Chi Tsai, Ernest L. Littauer
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Abstract
In an electrochemical cell, a cathode having an essentially continuous layer of ruthenium on its surface which improves the performance of the cathode during the electrochemical reduction of chlorine, oxygen or peroxyl ions in an aqueous salt electrolyte.
Claims5
An electrochemical cell consisting essentially of an anode, a cathode having an essentially continuous layer of ruthenium on its surface and an aqueous alkaline salt electrolyte in which said anode and cathode are immersed, said electrolyte containing a reducible species selected from the group consisting of peroxyl ions, chlorine and oxygen which is electrochemically reduced at said cathode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.