Warp-knit fabric of noble metal-containing wires, and method for the production thereof

US6089051A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• W. C. Heraeus GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Marek Gorywoda · Hanau, DE
• Michael Hormann · Bodenwerder, DE
• Gunter Lindenmayer · Bad Orb, DE
• David Francis Lupton · Gelnhausen, DE
• Bruno Streb · Alzenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 10, 1993
• Grant date: Jul 18, 2000
• Expiry date: Nov 10, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T442/475
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Fine-mesh warp-knit fabrics of noble metal-containing wires with high specific surface areas, having good mechanical stability, are produced by warp-knitting noble metal-containing wires to form closed stitches, such that the warp-knit fabric has at least 14 stitches per inch, and such that in at least one of the knit weaves forming the warp-knit fabric, the noble metal-containing wires are laid down over at least three stitch spacings.