Abstract: A method of manufacturing polarizable electrode plates for use in an electrochemical capacitor having a high energy storage capacity. The plates are made of a dry activated carbon and modifying agent mixture combined with a binder. The plates are manufactured by mixing and grinding the mixture, combining the mixture with the binder to form a paste, removing free water from the paste, forming work pieces of desired dimensions from the paste, drying the work pieces, and then forming electrode plates from the work pieces by rolling without the use of processing liquids.

Abstract: An electrode and a DEL capacitor formed therewith. The electrode will typically be a polarizable electrode, and may be formed of an activated carbon material having a substantially zero ash percentage and a low percentage of transition metals. In constructing a DEL capacitor employing such an electrode, a non-polarizable electrode formed from a lead dioxide/lead sulfate compound is preferably also used. The DEL capacitor may utilize an acid-based electrolyte, such as an aqueous sulfuric acid electrolyte. Consequently, the present invention also includes a current collector that preferably comprises a base material formed from a lead or a lead compound and a protective coating material that is resistant to an acid-based electrolyte. Preferably, the protective coating material is formed from a polymer base and a conductive dope that may thereafter be applied to the current collector base material by a variety of methods.

Abstract: An electrode and a DEL capacitor formed therewith. The electrode will typically be a polarizable electrode, and may be formed of an activated carbon material having a substantially zero ash percentage and a low percentage of transition metals. In constructing a DEL capacitor employing such an electrode, a non-polarizable electrode formed from a lead dioxide/lead sulfate compound is preferably also used. The DEL capacitor may utilize an acid-based electrolyte, such as an aqueous sulfuric acid electrolyte. Consequently, the present invention also includes a current collector that preferably comprises a base material formed from a lead or a lead compound and a protective coating material that is resistant to an acid-based electrolyte. Preferably, the protective coating material is formed from a polymer base and a conductive dope that may thereafter be applied to the current collector base material by a variety of methods.

Abstract: The invention relates to electrical engineering and can find application for making electrodes for chemical sources of electric energy--using fibrous polymer metal-coating bases. The invention has for its object to replace palladium and tin used in operations preceding chemical coating of the polymer fibrous material with a metal, with less critical materials. The object is accomplished by using a cation-exchange material having a cation-exchange capacity of 0.5-6 mg-eq/g, and metal coating is preceded by saturating the polymer material with nickel ions, followed by treating it with an aqueous solution of boron hydride of an alkali metal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to electrical engineering and can find application for making devices accumulating electric energy.The invention has for its object to improve the electrical characteristics of double-layer capacitors. To this aim, use is made of a nickel-oxide electrode in pair with an electrode made of a fibrous carbonic material, as well as of an aqueous-alkaline or aqueous-carbonate electrolyte. To obtain a power capacity of the capacitor, the carbonic material one of the electrodes is made from is nickel-copper-plated.