Plasma treatment for metal oxide electrodes
AssigneeEveready Battery Company, Inc.
InventorRobert E. Ray
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Abstract
A process for reducing the surface of a metal oxide substrate, such as silver oxide, to form a layer of its metal, such as silver, on the metal oxide substrate by contacting the substrate with a plasma gas excited by a plasma generator.
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A process for treating a battery cell electrode comprising contacting a portion of a surface of a metal oxide substrate of the battery cell electrode with at least one gas excited by a plasma generator to reduce the surface of the metal oxide substrate to form a layer of its metal on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate, wherein the metal oxide below the treated surface of the substrate is not reduced to metal.
A process for treating a battery cell electrode comprising contacting a surface of a metal oxide substrate of the battery cell electrode with at least one gas excited by a plasma generator to reduce the surface of the metal oxide substrate to form a layer of its metal on the surface of the substrate, wherein the metal oxide below the treated surface of the substrate is not reduced to metal.
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