US 11,746,434 B2
Methods of forming a metal coated article
Prabhat K. Tripathy, Idaho Falls, ID (US)
Assigned to Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, Idaho Falls, ID (US)
Filed by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, Idaho Falls, ID (US)
Filed on Jul. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/813,920.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/203,398, filed on Jul. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0047624 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. C25D 3/66 (2006.01); C25D 5/10 (2006.01); C25D 11/00 (2006.01); C25D 5/50 (2006.01)
CPC C25D 3/665 (2013.01) [C25D 5/10 (2013.01); C25D 5/50 (2013.01); C25D 11/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of forming a metal coated article, comprising:
forming a metal halide in a molten salt plating bath at a first temperature, wherein forming the metal halide in the molten salt plating bath further comprises:
forming at least one functional metal halide electrolyte; and
forming at least two auxiliary metal halide electrolytes at eutectic conditions;
increasing the first temperature to a second temperature;
forming a plated metal coating from the at least one functional metal halide electrolyte onto a thermally conductive substrate; and
introducing at least one of deuterium and tritium into the plated metal coating.