Raney-type skeleton metals

A considerable contribution to the development of alkaline fuel cells was made toward the end of the 1950s by the German physicists Eduard Justi and his coworkers. They made electrodes with nonplatinum catalysts, the so-called Raney-type skeleton metals nickel for the hydrogen side and silver for the oxygen side (Justi et al. 1954). The catalysts were included into a matrix of carbonyl nickel. These electrodes were named Doppel-Skelett (DSK) = double skeleton electrodes (Justi and Winsel, 1962). 

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