Foam nickel is made of metal nickel, has the best three-dimensional fully penetrated mesh structure. Nickel skeleton is hollow and metallurgical state nickel connects together. High porosity can reach 96-98; bulk density is only 1/50 of nickel. Specific surface area is great; still maintain good physical and chemical properties of nickel. The new structure of the excellent properties makes it a function type new material, having wide application field.
It can be cutting, bending, and simply paste, has very high heat conductivity. Homogeneous three-dimensional network structure has the filtering function, can make gas and fluid flow stable
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In Chemical power sources:
Foam nickel is applied to nickel-hydrogen batteries, nickel-cadmium batteries and fuel cells. Foam nickel type positive and negative electrodes, improve the performance of the batteries, nickel - carbon composite electrode materials are ideal materials for lithium battery. The rechargeable battery is widely used in mobile phone, computer, electric scooter, electric bicycle, hybrid vehicles, electric toy car, cordless power tools, and electronic digital products.
In the field of chemical engineering:
Foam nickel can be used as catalyst carrier, filtering medium, the medium separator (e.g. oil-water separator, oil separator, automobile exhaust purifiers, air purifiers, electronic cigarette, and smoke lampblack machine). Because of its large specific surface area, so it can reduce energy consumption, improve the efficiency.
In electrochemical engineering:
For electrolytic hydrogen production, electro catalytic process, electrochemical metallurgy, can significantly improve the energy efficiency.
In the field of thermal:
Foam nickel can be used as a heat conductive material, and used as” wick" material of a" heat pipe", double the efficiency.
In the field of functional materials:
Foam nickel can be used as sound absorbing material to absorb wave energy, buffer electromagnetic shielding, stealth technology, flame retardant, insulation and so on.