Material and coating for interconnector busbars

摘要

In one embodiment, an electrochemical system includes an interconnector busbar including a substrate and a coating contacting the substrate, the coating including a layer of electroplated elemental nickel.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
electroplating a nickel outer layer onto a base layer; forming a busbar from the base layer and nickel outer layer to obtain a busbar nickel outer layer contacting a busbar base layer; and joining the busbar to a battery cell terminal such that the busbar nickel outer layer contacts the battery cell terminal; wherein the nickel outer layer does not include a significant amount of any element other than nickel.