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A CLEAN OVEN IN MINUTES, NOT HOURS Not enough time to clean your oven? No worries. LG brings you the new generation of oven cleaning with EasyClean™. LG ranges provide a quick and convenient way to clean your oven, while still being able to use the conventional self-clean method. Thanks to LG's innovative enamel technology, EasyClean works in three simple steps. Spray the oven interior with water, press EasyClean, then in just 20 minutes, wipe away any residual bits of grime. No chemicals or high heat needed to keep your oven sparkling clean.
HANDLES ANY SIZE MEAL Cook two meals at once - Allows you to cook different dishes at different temperatures all at the same time. Gives you room for everything you'd need for a holiday dinner.
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Great range
When I started shopping for a range, I was drawn to LG because of the quality I saw when comparing them to other appliances. I found LG and one other brand to have the...Read complete review
When I started shopping for a range, I was drawn to LG because of the quality I saw when comparing them to other appliances. I found LG and one other brand to have the best features and quality in their price range when compared to other brands. LG seems to always come our with the newest ideas and features for their appliances which shows me that this is a company that is innovative and end user focused. So after some internet research I decided that LG was the way I wanted to go. I have owned other LG products and always been happy with their performance. I have had this range for about 3 months now. I have found it to be a great buy. The range is attractive and quite functional. The double oven has already proven to be very useful in my family. We recently cooked a turkey in the lower oven at one temperature while we baked pies in the upper oven at a different temperature. That feature is awesome. The warmer plate has been useful as well. It is most useful when you are preparing several dishes and they finish cooking at different times. I was unable to cook stir fry on my old stove because it couldn't generate enough heat. But with the units having both and inner and outer ring of heat, this stir frying is no longer a problem. I love the touch features. It simplifies turning things on and off and controlling temperature. I have not had a chance to see how the oven cleaning feature works yet. It has a Sabbath setting for Jewish families that I think is thoughtful although I am not Jewish. I am very happy with my purchase of this range and I feel that anyone looking for a solid performer at a good price consider this range.
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This is the most horrible oven I have ever used
The stove top takes forever to heat up, and when it finally does heat up it gets way to hot. I have to cook on the lowest setting and constantly have to adjust the...Read complete review
The stove top takes forever to heat up, and when it finally does heat up it gets way to hot. I have to cook on the lowest setting and constantly have to adjust the knobs if I want to cook on the stove for more than 10 minutes. The oven wasn't getting hot enough to bake, so I called a technician out and now the oven temperatures cook at too hot a temperature. If I cook something over 400 degrees it gets too hot. If I want to bake something at 350 degrees it won't heat up hot enough. When I open the oven to bake, the oven cools down 40 degrees and doesn't start heating back up for ten minutes. So I have to turn the oven off, wait three minutes and restart it, just to trick it into heating up. This oven is not for people who want to actually bake. It's a decoration for a Barbie dream house, but not meant to be actually used.
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By KY Noonie
from Morgan Co. KY
We bought our Stove one month ago. At first I wasn't sure I liked it because of the push button controls. But now I can use it with ease! The settings are so accurate on the cook-top and both ovens. The Pizza setting on the top oven is great. I used easy clean yesterday, it took 20 minutes and the ovens were clean. I highly recommend this product.
By STOVEY
from Herndon, VA, United States
great range, and has many great features
By cckid
from Sheridan, WY 82801, USA
we had bought this range, and decided to sell our home and purchase a new rang, so we bought the same range for our new home, as having two ovens make baking easy, and as most of the things we bake we do in the smaller oven, we save on our electricity bill..The stove top is easy to use, and clean this range cmes with a clean look and works better than any other range we have had
By GOhio
from Salt Lake City, UT, USA
So far so good. The burners are more powerful than our last oven. The burners and oven heat up faster as well. The literal "bells and whistles" take getting used to #i.e. when the oven reaches temp a little tune is played, and played# but they are what they are. My only complaint is the oven racks. They have little ears/tabs that stick up and make is difficult to slide pans out of the oven or setting large pizza pans in it. Overall we are happy with the oven and it's features. We have not used very many features #self clean# as of today but the oven has plenty of features or options to choose from.
Great quality ,excellent value
By stephano
from Louisville, KY, USA
This stove not only is of top quality but also is of great value to cost. The features are dynamic and easy to operate. Iet also makes fashion statement for any kitchen. I highly recommend this product.
This product has great features
By mick
from slc utah
my wife just loves the two ovens the easy to use controls and five burners are a huge help she cooks a lot it goes great in are remolded kitchen, all of are appliances are stainless steel easy to clean and looks good cooks great
By spitzerone
from Castle Hayne, NC, USA
Features galore!!!!!
By Pat N.
from Marrero, LA, USA
Having a double oven is a real plus. It's so easy to clean!! Beautifuly designed cooktop and oven. Control panel is easy to read and understand. This is the best oven we have ever owned. We are now totally LG with our major appliances, refrigerator, oven, microwave, dishwasher, washer, and dryer. Love 'em all!!
Product is wonderful
By chiefs fan
from San Antonio, TX, USA
Love the new stove with the double ovens. The top heats up so quick and the double burner works great on larger pans. It heats much faster than our old stove and cooking is much faster. Also the double ovens makes it great when cooking large meals, can now cook several things at the same time.
Love having a double oven
By Jackie61
from Akron, OH
The stove is great. I had to get use to digital settings and timers, they work wonderful. It plays a nice tune after the ovens preheat and when the timer goes off.
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Release Support Engineer will coordinate between Frontend, Backend and QA teams. This engineer will be work with AEM based Responsive Enterprise Websites with highly available data distributed application built on a cloud platform. It is a Java-based backend and jQuery-based frontend along with open source software stack. The project practices Agile methodologies with continuous integration/deployment of multiple releases.
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Hope Wood Magnet was published by Christian Art Gifts in January 2011 and is our 43046th best seller. The ISBN for Hope Wood Magnet is 6006937110540.
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Anyone shoot or own a Remington 887 Nitro Mag? I have been shopping around for a pump and this shotgun has caught my eye! I have seen some review on it and the ones I have seen either really love it or have had nothing but problems with it.
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Publication number | US5013619 A |
Publication type | Grant |
Application number | US 07/274,102 |
Publication date | May 7, 1991 |
Filing date | Nov 21, 1988 |
Priority date | Dec 15, 1983 |
Fee status | Lapsed |
Also published as | CA1254613A, CA1254613A1, DE3485832D1, DE3485832T2, EP0145498A2, EP0145498A3, EP0145498B1, US4818643 |
Publication number | 07274102, 274102, US 5013619 A, US 5013619A, US-A-5013619, US5013619 A, US5013619A |
Inventors | John A. Cook, Geroge B. Park, Robert H. McLoughlin, William J. Whitcher |
Original Assignee | Scimat Limited |
Export Citation | BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan |
Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (27), Classifications (15), Legal Events (8) | |
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet | |
This application is a Divisional Application which claims priority from application Ser. No. 06/942,911 (filed 17 Dec. 1986), now U.S. Pat. No. 4,818,643 which was a Continuation Application claiming priority from U.S. application Ser. No. 06/780,546 (filed 26 Sept. 1985), which was a continuation Application claiming priority from U.S. application Ser. No. 06/675,909 (filed 28 Nov. 1984), which was a Continuation-in-Part Application claiming priority from Application Ser. No. 06/618,104 (filed 7 June 1984) the rest now all abandoned.
This invention relates to electrolyte and electrode materials for electrochemical current-generating cells, hereinafter referred to as electrochemical power cells.
Some electrical components, for example some electrode materials, are sensitive insofar as they are difficult to handle during manufacture of electrical devices owing to physical weakness or high chemical reactivity, which may necessitate inconvenient handling procedures and/or special conditions such as dry room assembly. Examples of such sensitive materials include alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, notably lithium metal electrodes for lithium cells. In one kind of such cells, the electrodes are assembled with sheets of polymer compositions which are inherently ionically conductive, often in liquid-free form commonly known as "polymeric electrolytes".
Lithium metal is difficult to roll into thin strips for use as an electrode, and U.S. Pat. No. 3,721,113 describes a method of alleviating this difficulty by rolling the lithium between smooth (surface asperities less than one micron) polymeric surfaces having sufficiently low critical surface tension to prevent adhesion to the lithium. The polymer may be a coating on the surface of rolls used to roll the lithium, or may be in the form of sheeting enclosing or facing the lithium, which does not adhere to the lithium and is peeled off the lithium strip after rolling. While this method facilitates the rolling operation, which produces the thin lithium strip, it does not improve the efficiency of assembling the delicate lithium strip into electrical devices.
Numerous variations of the materials and structure of individual cell electrodes have previously been described, with the emphasis on the chemical and electrical performance of the materials and with little attention to the assembly process itself. For example, British Patent No. 1533279 describes the use of an adherent thin coating of a vinyl polymer film on the surface of lithium strip electrodes for lithium/thionyl chloride cells to prevent electrode passivation, which tends to occur on storage of that particular kind of cell. The vinyl polymer film is insoluble in the thionyl chloride and must not be degraded or decomposed in the presence of the same. It must be sufficiently thin to permit ion transfer between the lithium and the thionyl chloride as required for current flow in operation of the cell. It is stated, though not demonstrated in the examples of the patent, that the vinyl polymer film may also serve as the sole electrode separator of the cell or may permit the use of a thinner separator than would normally be required. Somewhat thicker films of the vinyl polymer are recommended for that purpose, but it is made clear that the ion transfer needed for acceptable electrical performance of the cell will be adversely affected by thus increasing the film thickness. Electrode separators of polystyrene are described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,315,602 for alkaline cells, the separators again being necessarily thin enough to permit ion transfer.
French Patent No. 7832978 (Publication No. 2442513) describes preparation of polymeric electrolyte films and their application to reactive metal electrodes by techniques such as solvent casting or pressure lamination of the polymeric film onto the metal or flowing the molten metal onto the polymer film and cooling.
The present invention provides articles and processes whereby significant improvements in electrical power cell assembly can be achieved, as hereinafter described.
In its broadest aspects, the invention provides melt extruded polymeric electrolyte materials and/or melt extruded cathode materials for electrochemical power cells. Either or both of these may be extruded onto other components of a cell, either sequentially or in some cases by coextrusion, for example to form a lithium cell in which a lithium anode is encapsulated in polymeric electrolyte with extruded cathode material and a current collector in contact with the electrolyte. Metallic anodes of suitable melting point, such as lithium, may advantageously be coextruded with the electrolyte and other components.
The invention can thus provide an advantageous article comprising sensitive electrode material carrying an extruded, preferably flexible, layer of polymeric electrolyte material by which is meant material which is inherently capable of sufficient ionic conductivity to provide an electrolyte, and preferably also carrying an extruded cathode layer in contact with the electrolyte. Preferably, the article is in a form suitable for feeding to automatic equipment capable of assembling the said device. The ionically conductive electrolyte layer and the cathode layer are preferably applied to the sensitive material in a continuous process, which may preferably also include the aforementioned automatic assembly into electrical devices.
This aspect of the invention accordingly provides a method of making an electrochemical power cell comprising melt-extruding polymeric electrolyte material onto another component to be incorporated in the cell.
The protective encapsulation of sensitive material by the flexible extruded layer(s) permits the development of assembly processes which conveniently include the step of deforming the sensitive electrode materials while protected by the extruded material, for example to reduce the thickness of the electrode material, and/or the step of arranging it in a desired form such as a coiled electrode, as will be further described hereinafter. The invention includes such deformed articles whether or not in a feedable form. For this purpose, the electrode material may advantageously be a metal which is malleable under temperatures and pressures which do not unacceptably damage the extruded layer(s).
The realisation that the previously unknown extrusion of the polymeric electrolyte and the cathode material can be used to form the active components of an electrochemical power cell leads to important processing advantages. Adherent extruded layers are preferred, for which purpose the or each layer may have suitable adhesion-promoting surface properties, such as surface asperities greater than one micron. The feedable article is preferably in the form of an elongate strip, preferably of sufficient length to make a plurality of the said electrical devices.
The or each layer of extruded material is preferably "able to survive" mechanical deformation of the electrode material in the sense that it will retain its integrity and maintain a useful degree of protection both against mechanical damage and against contamination of the electrode material after a significant amount of deformation, for example for the aforementioned purposes. The precise amount of deformation which the protective material must survive will be a matter of commonsense for practical readers. Brittle layers which would crack so as to reduce the protection unacceptably are accordingly excluded, except for end uses where substantial flexibility is not required. Materials which would react unacceptably in other ways, either chemically or physically, for example very thin layers which would become unacceptably scuffed or torn, are of course to be avoided.
The extruded electrolyte is capable of sufficient ionic conductivity to provide an electrolyte, preferably independent of the action of liquid.
It is an advantage of the present invention that the extruded materials will provide protection against contamination of the electrode material. This is especially advantageous in connection with electrode materials which may react violently with certain contaminants, for example alkali metals with water, since the protective material will reduce the likelihood of violent reaction.
The extruded material may thus provided a unitary pre-assembled electrical device such as a cell, thus eliminating some of the problems of handling and aligning electrodes, current collectors and other components during the assembly of the electrical devices, and facilitating automated processing.
It will be understood that the sensitive electrode material may require protection for various reasons, for example materials which are subject to attack by atmospheric gases or moisture during storage: materials which may react prematurely with liquid with which they may come into contact during assembly materials which are subject to poisoning by contaminants during storage; and materials which lack physical strength or integrity and thus require protection from physical damage. The invention is especially useful for materials which require physical protection owing to physical weakness, e.g. lithium metal.
It is a further advantage of the present invention that the processes can apply the extruded materials continuously and can therefore readily be integrated into a system for assembling successive portions of the article into a succession of the electrical devices as aforesaid, preferably automatically and continuously. The advantages of such an automated process over the piece-by-piece hand assembly methods hitherto used in the absence of the articles according to this invention, especially for alkali metal or alkaline earth metal electrode materials, will be appreciated.
Pre-extruded films of electrolyte and/or cathode materials according to this invention can be assembled with the opposing electrode material and other components of the electrical device, but the preferred direct extrusion polymeric electrolyte material reduces the difficulties which are encountered in handling and aligning separate layers of materials, especially with reactive metals such as alkali metals or alkaline earth metals.
This invention is especially useful in relation to reactive metal electrodes such as alkali metal or alkaline earth metal electrodes, especially lithium electrodes for lithium cells. Production of thin sheet electrodes of these and other materials can be facilitated by deforming the electrode material, for example by rolling, while in contact with the extruded layer(s) so as to increase its surface area, e.g. to decrease the thickness of the electrode material or otherwise alter its form or surface configuration. In this way, thin sheets of lithium, for example of about 0.075 millimeters thickness, which would otherwise be difficult and expensive to make and handle, can be produced from more readily available 0.25 millimeter strip. The extruded material may be deformed, e.g. stretched, so as to enhance its function in the device, e.g. its ability to provide an electrode separator and/or electrolyte. This may be useful for extruded materials which require permeation by liquid in order to provide adequate ionic conductivity. However, substantially dry materials are preferred.
The polymeric electrolyte of the invention may comprise other materials in addition to the salt-loaded polymer. These materials may advantageously be mixed into the polymer during the blending process. Melt blending techniques are particularly suitable for mixing the materials of the electrolyte because of the high homogeneity of the mixtures produced thereby. Materials may be selected that provide one or more functions, but it is, of course, important that the materials are both miscible with the electrolyte, and chemically compatible with the other components in the cell with which they will come into contact, for example a lithium anode. It is particularly advantageous to add to the polymer a plasticising agent to inhibit or substantially to prevent the change in morphology of the polymer from the amorphous phase in which it exists when molten, to a phase in which it is at least partially crystalline. This is advantageous since the ionic conductivity in the amorphous phase is generally higher than that in the crystalline phase. The following list contains examples of plasticising agents which may be mixed into a polymer for this purpose, the choice of agent depending on chemical compatibility and other factors:
Propylene carbonate
Ethylene carbonate
Tetramethylene sulphone (Sulpholane*)
Dioctyl phthalate
Dibutyl phthalate
Thiokol TP-90B* plasticiser (Thiokol Corporation)
Thiokol TP-759* plasticiser (Thiokol Corporation)
Vulkanol OT* plasticiser (Bayer UK Ltd)
The amount of plasticising agent or agents to be added will depend on many factors, particularly the nature of the polymer and other components of the electrolyte, and the temperature. However, it is generally appropriate to add between 5 and 60% by weight, especially between 15 and 50%, more especially between 25 and 40%.
It is preferred to select a plasticising agent that has a relatively high dielectric constant to enhance dissociation of the ions of the salt, and thereby to improve ionic conductivity throughout the electrolyte. A dielectric constant of at least 15, preferably at least 20, especially at least 30, more especially at least 40 is preferred; for example, propylene carbonate (dielectric constant 64.4 at 25� C.), ethylene carbonate (89.6 at 40� C.) and tetramethylene sulphone (43.3 at 30� C.).
The invention includes electrodes for electrical devices carrying extruded polymeric electrolyte and electrical devices including such electrodes.
Suitable ionically conductive materials include inorganic salts dispersed in extrudable organic polymer material, preferably capable of permitting sufficient transfer of dissociated ions of the salt to provide the required ionic conductivity in the substantial absence of any liquid.
Examples include salt-loaded polymers having the repeating unit ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or a group Ra, --CH2 ORa, --CH2 ORe Ra, --CH2 N(CH3)2, in which Ra is C1 -C16, preferably C1 -4 alkyl or cycloalkyl,
and Re is an ether group of formula --CH2 CH2 O--p wherein p is a number from 1 to 100, preferably 1 or 2; or having the repeating unit ##STR2## wherein R11 is Ra, or ReRa, as defined above; or having the repeating unit ##STR3## wherein Re and Ra are as defined above. The preferred salts are the strong acid salts of alkali metals or ammonium.
The extruded electrolyte preferably will not interact with the electrode materials, although beneficial interactions are not excluded from the invention.
Preferred processing conditions for polyethylene oxide to achieve polymer/salt complication using Brabender, twin-srew internal cavity mixer at 30 RPM for a 10:1 complex, include blending temperatures of greater than 100� C., ideally 140�-180 � C., and not greater than 180� C. (to avoid polymer degradation). Total blending time less than 20 minutes is preferred to reduce possibility of polymer degradation.
For a Baker-Perkins MPC 30 compounding line, the optimum temperature on twin screw intensive mixing section is 120� C.; optimum temperature during extrusion; 150� C.
The following Examples illustrate aspects of this invention.
10 g polyethylene oxide (Union Carbide WSR 205) was dissolved in acetonitrile (pre-distilled) with stirring to give a 3% solution. The appropriate amount of the salt LiCF3 SO3 (vacuum dried at 130� C. for 4 hours) to give a polymer oxygen lithium ion ratio (O:Li) of 10:1 was then added to the solution. The solution was then stirred at room temeprature for 4 hours.
Polymer film of thickness 0.2-0.3 mm was then solvent cast from the solution by placing the solution in a flat glass petrie dish and allowing the solvent to evaporate slowly. The films were then vacuum dried at 105� C. for 8 hours, before being placed in a vacuum desiccator and transferred to a dry box.
To ensure that the films remained totally anhydrous all subsequent handling operations on the materials were performed in the dry box.
The DSC trace of the film was precorded on a Dupont 1090 Thermal analyser operating in the DSC mode. FIG. 1 depicts the DSC trace obtained.
The conductivity of the film was measured on a 0.85 cm diameter sample using the Griffin conductivity bridge operating at 1k Hz and the conductivity cell shown in FIG. 2, which includes an aluminum support 1 having an aluminum top 2 and an aluminum cage base 3, and including therewithin a stainless steel electrode 4 located within a PTFE surround 5 and fitted therein in the manner shown is a stainless steel electrode 6 having a PTFE surround 7, with either end containing a PTFE cap 8 and 9 at the bottom and top thereof, respectively, with the bottom view of the top cap 9 being shown in FIG. 2a.
The conductivity at 100� C. was 2.4�10-4 ohm-1 cm-1.
The appropriate amounts of poly(ethylene oxide) and salt LiCF3 SO3, to give a 10:1 (O:Li) complex were mixed as powders and then melt blended on a Brabender twin screw cavity mixer at 160� C. for 20 minutes (30 RPM). The material was then pressed at 120� C. under 15 tonnes pressure to give a film of thickness 0.2-0.3 mm. The film was then dried and handled as described in Example 1.
The DSC trace of the material is shown in FIG. 3 and is essentially the same as that obtained from the material in the previous example.
The conductivity of the film at 100� C. was 4.2�10-4 ohm-1 cm-1.
The material described in Example 2 was melt blended on a Baker-Perkins compounding line. The material was then formed into tape using a single screw extruder (32 mm Baughn single screw L/D ratio 25/1). The tape was produced in thickness 0.3-0.4 mm.
The tape was dried and handled as described in Example 1.
The DSC trace obtained is shown in FIG. 4, and is essentially the same as those obtained in the two previous examples.
The conductivity of the tape was measured using the method described in Example 1.
The conductivity of the tape at 100� C. was 2.1�10-4 ohm-1 cm-1.
A length of lithium foil supplied by Foote Mineral Co., 35 mm wide 0.25 mm thick, was encapsulated with a blend of Polyox WSR 205 and LiCF3 SO3 made as described in Example 3. The encapsulation was done by passing the lithium through a crosshead die mounted on a 32 mm single scew Baughn extruder and drawing a tube of the Polyox/LiCF3 SO3 blend down on to it. The encapsulation was completed by drawing the composition between nip rollers immediately following extrusion. The resulting laminate had an overall thickness of 0.65 mm being composed of a lithium layer, 0.25 mm thick, coated on each side with a 0.2 mm thick layer of the Polyox, LiCF3 SO3 blend.
The coating was removed from the lithium foil and its conductivity measured using the method described in example 1.
The conductivity of the coating at 25� C. was 2.5�10-8 ohm-1 cm-1, this compares with a value of 3.8�10-8 ohm-1 cm-1 obtained for the material described in Example 1.
23.8 grams of polyethylene oxide) was melted on a Brabender twin screw cavity mixer at 160� C. for 5 minutes (30 RPM). To the melt was then added 23.8 grams electrolyte manganese dioxide (Mitsubushi Corporation GS grade) previously dried for 4 hours at 75� C., and 2.4 grams acetylene black (Cairn Chemical Limited). The materials were then melt blended for a further 5 minutes to give a homogeneous mix.
A thin plaque of the composite cathode was fabricated from the mix by pressing at 120� C. under 15 tonnes pressure. The final plaque thickness was 0.15 mm.
The composite cathode described in Example 5 was used to fabricate an eletrochemical cell in the following way.
A 0.85 cm diameter disc was cut from the composite cathode plaque, dried at 110� C. under vacuum for 2 hours and then transferred to the dry box where all subsequent operations were performed.
A 0.1 cm diameter disc of the ionically conducting material described in Example 3 was sandwiched between the composite cathode and a 0.85 cm diameter disc of lithium metal, thickness 0.25 mm. This assembly was then pressed between spring loaded stainless steel electrodes to ensure good interfacial contact between the solid components of the electrochemical cell. The stainless steel electrodes also acted as external electrical connection for the electrochemical cell.
The electrochemical cell so described gave an open circuit voltage at 70� C. of 3.30 volt. When connected to a 100K ohm external load the cell was capable of delivering 28 uA at 2.8 volt.
The appropriate amounts of poly(ethylene oxide) and salt LiCF3 SO3, to give a 10:1 (O:Li) complex were mixed as powders and then melt blended on a Brabender turn screw cavity mixer at 160� C. for 15 minutes. 30% w/w propylene carbonate (Aldrich Chemical Co. Ltd.) was then added as the melt cooled. The resulting material was pressed at 80� C. under 15 tonnes pressure to give a film of thickness 0.5 mm.
The conductivity of the film at 23� C. was 1.84�10-4 ohm cm-1.
The above process was repeated to produce electrolytes containing ethylene carbonate and sulpholane. Conductivities of 1.45�10-4 and 7.54�10-5 ohm-1 cm-1 respectively were measured at 23� C.
The appropriate amounts of poly(ethylene oxide) and salt LiCF3 SO3, to give a 30:1 (O:Li) complex were mixed as powders and then melt blended on a continuous basis, in a Leistritz twin-screw extruder. Pre-distilled propylene carbonate was added to the pre-formed polymeric electrolyte during a second extrusion stage. A precise and reproducible level of addition (34.5% w/w) was achieved by means of a calibrated reciprocating pump.
The conductivity of the polymeric electrolyte was 1.90�10-4 ohm-1 cm-1.
Lithium metal was encapsulated as in example 4, prior to fabrication of electrochemical cells.
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Each one has a unique flower, how clever. I love mine! Is it a wax you used over the paper surface?
Micki, these are super!
Micki how clever you are to make these flowers.
Nice flowers, and such a great background!
beautiful birthdaycards!!
Beautiful cards. The background is gorgeous.
I can tell you they look even lovlier in the flesh, Thank you Micki
What a unique technique to create these beauties. I like the way you are always trying new things.
Happy Birthday to the birthday girls!
Love the background you have created Micki. You are another one whose work is always so neat.
Love the textured background too. These are really beautiful especially close up!
the card is so wonderful thank you very much
Thank you for the comment on my bag. You have been really productive.
Beautiful birthdaycards, Micki! The green background is gorgeous!
These are so beautiful cards, I love the free-motion stiching. The background is like a deep water.
These really have a 'wow' factor to them Micki.


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I recently completed a drawing of my sister-in-law's first grandchild, little Hayley who was born just six or eight weeks ago.
Marilyn (yes she has the same name as me! I often tease her about pinching my name when she married my brother Tony) gave me a two photographs of Hayley which I had to put together on my computer to make up one image and then I worked on a drawing from this photograph. A drawing is an interpretation, not an exact copy of the photograph and in doing such a drawing some elements come into it through the choices of the artist, that makes it an original work of art. A drawing can find the essence of a personality in a way that a photograph never can. When interpreting a photograph I try to simplify the image and find the essential qualities that convey the soul.
I am happy to take commissions for drawings such as this one. Just contact me through the 'contact me' link at the top right of this page (don't forget to enter the antispam number in the wee box above it) and send me your favourite photograph of your child, friend or family member and within three weeks you could have an original drawing. A quote on the price will be given on receipt of the image. Prices can range from $60 to $250 depending on the size and complexity of the drawing.
I have been working well on the tapestry 'Musicians in the Square'. I have been weaving for five weeks now, and am about one third of the way through it. As you can see in the photograph the colours are bold and strong and are working well together. The tapestry is being woven on its side so the image is not clear as yet. The sett is 8epi and the completed work will be 101 x 220cm approx. I just can't seem to get away from weaving fairly large tapestries. Somehow the design concepts demand to be woven large rather than small.
Last week I had a lovely surprise visit from my Irish cousin Margaret Rea. Margaret and I are both descended from Hugh and Margaret Rea from County Down in Ireland. Our great grandfather's were brothers. My great grandfather James Armstrong Rea was born at Hillhead Farm in 1842 and he decided to emigrate, sailing first to Australia where he arrived in Melbourne just before his 20th birthday. He spent six years in Australia, most probably mining for gold in the Victorian gold fields. He came to New Zealand on the Alhambra of 8th October 1868, arriving in Hokitika. The family settled on the West Coast where most of us were born. James' brother Thomas chose to go to America and he settled in Pennsylvania joining his uncle James McKelvy Rea.
Margaret's family stayed in Ireland and are still farming Hillhead farm. It is so good to be in contact with our relations in Ireland. There was an instant family rapport between us all. When my brother Peter Rea visited the farm in Ireland eighteen months ago he said that he felt instantly at home and was just blown away by the feelings of belonging that overhwelmed him. Maybe one day I just might get to vist the family in Ireland too.
These two photos show Margaret having a wee go at weaving in my studio. Although her visit was very short it was so nice to see her again. We first met about two years ago on her first trip to New Zealand.
I have just hung the tapestry 'Cityscape' on the back wall of the studio. Here are two images of how it looks.
This tapestry was completed earlier this year and it features the shopfront window of Max's clothing shop in Cashel Mall, Christchurch. I have always been impressed by the quality of this shop's window displays, and the tapestry was designed from a photograph I took of a display that captured my attention. I manipulated the photograph on Photoshop and simplified the image until it became very abstract. I am quite fascinated by how much information can be lost in this process and yet the brain can still read the image and fill in the missing bits. I changed the colours away from the natural colours also as I wanted this tapestry to be part of a series of 'City Life' works. The tapestry is 139 x 89cm in size and was set at 10epi (ends per inch) and is a quite complex design. Here are two closeup details so that you can see the texture of the weave.
Since my return from Australia I have been busy setting up my big loom for a new tapestry. I have been weaving now for almost two weeks and the tapestry is well on its way. This image shows the first week's work.
The tapestry is another one in the'City Life' series and features a group of young people playing their musical instruments in the square. The tapestry is 98cm wide and will be just over 200cm long. I can't seem to get away from weaving the big works, even though they are quite hard to sell. However, I hope to exhibit all these works together in a couple of years time.
These last three weeks or so have been very busy as I was also working on creating some original digital prints for the Eklektika 8 exhibiton which is showing now at Gallery O in the Arts Centre. The digital prints are a great foil for the tapestry as they are much more immediate and quicker to make. This year I purchased a very good Canon Pro 9000 A3 printer and these images have been printed on to canvas and then glued on to a stretched canvas. I am really pleased with the result. Canon is now claiming that their inks will last up to 100 years so I hope that they will do so.
This first image shows Susan Noble sitting behind the desk and in front of my work. Michael Smetham's painting is showing to the right
These two photographs are close-ups of the prints. I am calling these works origiinal digital prints as they do not exist in any other format or medium. They are different from reproductions and giclees as they are not copies of other work in a different medium so are therefore original works in their own right. The top image shows my 'Doll' series. I have photographed these old dolls many times now and created new images each time. The bottom photograph shows my grandson Matthew in three different colour ways. I created this image a few years ago but this is the first time that I have shown it.
I had a lovely time in Hobart with my eldest daughter Nicola, her husband Paul and their three kids, Kate, Liam and Briar. My third daughter Kellie travelled there and back with me too. This photograph shows the view over Hobart from their home. They live in Sandy Bay overlooking the city.
At the end of the first week we all went for a tickey tour up to Cradle Mountain in northern Tasmania where we visited some caves and also went on a few small bush walks. The colours were beautiful, lots of Indian reds and oranges in the foliage, but unfortunately that didn't show too much in my photographs as we were there in the middle of the day when the light bleached the colour out. Here is a shot of the caves, a fascingating place, limestone with an underground river running through them and lots of colour too. Some wonderful ancient stalactites and stalagmites with such interesting shapes and forms.
The following photograph shows us standing on a rock formation above the lake at Cradle Mountain. Unfortunately we could not see the top of the mountain as it was covered in cloud. From left is Kate, Kellie, Paul, Nicola, Liam and myself with Briar in front. Don't you love my hat!!!!!
The final image of the view we had of the Myers fire on the day before I left for Melbourne and the teaching in Geelong. A most awe inspiring view of the fire. This photo was taken just as it was starting to get get and the flames could be seen very easily.
Whilst in Hobart I spent three days in the second week teaching Cate and Robbie who are both fairly new to tapestry. They had visited my studio in Christchurch a few months previous to my trip and were both interested in learning more about tapestry weaving so we organised to have the workshop at my daughter's house in Sandy Bay, Hobart. Cate has been teaching herself from books and had done a number of samplers of different techniques so had developed some facility in weaving. We had three good days together and enjoyed the sessions.
Cate was learning more about the pick and pick techniques and Robbie was weaving from a small drawing he did of a light switch, learning how to build shapes, and outline them with a dark line of weaving which we call limning.
On the Tuesday at lunchtime we went for lunch at a cafe down on the harbour frontage and met up with Nicole Johnson. Nicole is also a tapestry weaver who spent some time weaving at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop in the 1970's. I enjoyed meeting with her, discussing our experiences in tapestry and seeing photographs of her work. Nicole is on the right with Cate and myself enjoying the relaxed atmosphere in the restaurant. Robbie took the photograph. I always enjoy meeting people who are passionate about tapestry and it is so neat also to find some new friends.
Well, I have been away in Australlia for three weeks and have been home a week now. I spent two weeks at my daughter Nicola's home in Hobart, Tasmania and had a lovely time with her family and also with my third daughter Kellie who came to Hobart with me. Family time is precious for me as I don't get to spend a lot of time with my kids as they all live a good plane trip away from me (and I am not that fond of planes, but do discipline myself to get on one now and again).
I spent the last week in Geelong at the Fibre Forum teaching a class of eight students how to deconstruct and then recostruct portrait images which were then woven into tapestries.
Here is the first image of the class working away at their tapestries. It was so good to get to know these tapestry weavers in Australia as I knew some of them by name only through my contacts on the tapestry lists. Yvonne Eade was the one who visited my studio last year and encouraged me to approach Janet de Boer with the proposal for this class, so thank you Yvonne, for encouraging me to take up this opportunity. It was good to put a face to Denise Stevens also, whose work I had seen and handled during the putting together of the Tapestry Network Suitcase Exhibition here in New Zealand two years ago. Also it was lovely to meet Chris Lucas (who you can see at left in the photograph) with whom I had corresponded through the tapestry list.
This image shows some of the portrait design concepts using the deconstruction and reconstruction methods. We had a lot of fun working on these images and enjoyed the results. Each student did a number of designs and then chose one to weave.
These two photographs show the tapestries in progress. The tapestries were set at different setts according to the detail in each design, so some students were working with a very fine sett of 18 - 20epi and others at around 14epi. It can be quite difficult to weave the shapes and tonal values necessary to get a likeness in weaving portraits, but you can see from the photographs that the works were coming along nicely. Unfortunately it is not possible in five days to complete these complex wee tapestries so the students were taking them home to finish them. One student Meg Lowery has already sent me the photograph of her completed tapestry. Meg is an experienced fibre artist but this is her first tapestry. See below.
"Lace 2' is growing!! I have been back working on this tapestry for the last three or four weeks and at last it is looking as if I am getting somewhere with it. I am about six inches away from halfway now. I love working on this piece. It is very fine for such a large tapestry, 13 epi, with a 12.6 warp, with a lot of colour blending using a wide range of yarns, mostly wool and some polyester cottons and silk.
This image shows work in progress on a small section of the tapestry. You can tell how many colours I am using by the number of bobbins that are hanging from the fell line. The colours are mixed on the bobbins and also blended during the weaving process.
These are my working hands. Note how I am holding the bobbin in my right hand and picking up the threads with my left. The bobbin never leaves my right hand and I pass it through the weft threads bottom first, with a quick flick of my wrist. I am lucky that I do not seem to be having any problems with RSI in my wrists, probably because I do take a lot of rests between working times. My natural way of working is getting up and down a lot, taking small breaks, so I do not sit and work without moving for hours at a time. I also get up to rewind the bobbins every time one runs out of yarn and that helps too. I wind the bobbins by hand as I do not have a bobbin winder.
This image is a close up view of the work. You can see the detail of the blending of colours often over very few warp threads. I am often working over just three or four threads at a time and using two bobbins. You can also see the stitching threads, as I am sewing the slits as I go on this tapestry. The reason for this is that the work is so large and fine that it would be a terrible job to try and sew the slits later. Also, by sewing the slits as I go it helps to keep the web firm and under control. With so many slits it is easy for buckling to develop, especially if the turns are not firm enough. Sewing the slits certainly helps to control that. I am using a black cotton thread to sew the slits and it mostly disappears into the weft, but can be seen occasionally. No worries with that though, as it is all part of the work.
The last few weeks have been very busy for me as I was preparing for this exhibiton before I went to spend a week in Hamilton for my daughter's 40th birthday. The exhibiton was due to be hung the day after I returned home from Hamilton so I had to make sure that everything was ready before I left to go away.
The exhibition features the five collaborative tapstries that I had left in my studio. These tapestries are shown alongside some work by the artists who created the design concepts for the tapestries. also showing are three tapestries of my own design and ten photographs from my series 'The City - After Dark'.
The NG Gallery is a beautiful large space which inclues a cafe and a section from where Sharon Ng, the gallery owner and director, also sells her lovely collection of fashion garments and other high quality furnishings. So it is a different place to show art works and the visitor can acquire a sense of how the art may look in a home environment. This photograph shows the tapestry 'Cityscape' on the left alongside the photographs of the city. The tapestry 'Living in the South Pacific' designed by Michael Reed hangs alongside three of his wonderful prints and a Dilana Rug which he also designed is on the floor.
This photograph shows the small tapestry 'Do Not Stare' designed by Paul Johns, alongside two of his large photographs.
The Railway Cups tapestries hang on the large painted wall in the gallery and Rudolf Boelee who designed the tapestries has hung three of his screen prints alongside.
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By now New Zealand should be caving in under the weight of an unenviable crown.
We have again been awarded Fossil of the Day award at the UN climate negotiations at Bonn. We've even crept up the charts, gaining second equal with Japan.
Japan also scored a separate special Fossil of the Day for proposing a criminally weak emissions reduction target of 8% emission reductions below 1990 levels by 2020. This should be seen as a sign of what's in store for New Zealand if the Government doesn't have a strong target to announce in August.
Before I explain the fossil, I need to offer a quick word of explanation about "closed informal" meetings. These are actually relatively formal meetings, but they're closed to journalists and observers (of which I'm one). They're often the forums for negotiators to raise ideas or issues that may be publicly unpopular. We're not supposed to know what happens at these meetings but one way or another, word usually gets out.
Today's New Zealand fossil was awarded because last night at a "closed informal" meeting of Kyoto Protocol negotiators, New Zealand proposed to remove all reference to numbers for the aggregate emissions reduction target for "Annex 1" countries, (the countries, including New Zealand, that have taken on binding commitments to reduce their greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol). One of the main objectives of these negotiations is to come up with a number for the amount of effort Annex 1 countries are expected to do in the next commitment period. New Zealand and Japan's interventions undermine the very purpose of these negotiations.
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Second Place: New Zealand and Japan, For seeking to remove numbers for aggregate Annex 1 targets at an informal meeting of the AWG-KP. Not only has Japan offered a weak national target and New Zealand not offered a target at all, they have both tried to remove any reference to aggregate target numbers from the Kyoto Protocol negotiations. They need to stop trying to get off the hook and agree to strong action to tackle climate change. No numbers is an unacceptable outcome.
More NZ worries
I've also been hearing worrying gossip about New Zealand's approach to indigenous peoples' rights and biodiversity (the latter being a technical word for native birds and animals etc).
Anonymous sources tell us that in closed meetings between the 4-9th June, New Zealand tried to weaken language proposed by other countries on indigenous peoples' participation in forest protection. This is consistent with attempts by New Zealand to weaken indigenous peoples' rights language in Poznan of December last year.
Not only did New Zealand refuse to back a call to protect biodiversity and to add a reference to the Convention on Biological Diversity, it went so far as to oppose a general reference for the climate convention to be in line with other international treaties that protect human rights and the environment.. Countries and NGOs following this strand of the negotiations are very cross about these actions.
Japan's target
The big event of the day, apart from the various fossils, was Japan's announcement of a weak target of 8% below 1990 levels by 2020, which resulted in a special Fossil of the Day award.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel was quoted as saying that this target is likely not enough. The German Environment Ministry said the target was far behind Japan´s possibilities and responsibilities.
In response to a question about Japan's target, the head of the UN's climate change secretariat Yvo de Boer said at his press conference: "for the first time in two and a half years in this job I just don't know what to say," and called for developed countries to adopt stronger targets. Not that New Zealand has one at all of course.
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Theodor W. Adorno regarded Mahler's Symphony No. 9 as "the first work of modern music". Adorno's teacher, Alban Berg, saw in it "the expression of a tremendous love for this world, a longing to live in peace and to savor Nature to its depths - before the arrival of Death. For it will inevitably come." This live recording of the composer's last completed symphony is part of an ongoing Leipzig cycle of Mahler's symphonies. It confirms once more the Gewandhaus Orchestra's reputation as an exemplary ensemble for the performance of Mahler's music. The highest level of performance culture combined with a sharply contoured, transparent, polished, and detailed manner of playing, plus infectious verve and an unmistakable sound characterized by a darkly golden color - these are qualities responsible for the Gewandhaus Orchestra's international reputation. Since the time of Bruno Walter, the orchestra has developed over the years a deep understanding of the works of Gustav Mahler, which in their collaboration with Riccardo Chailly has been continued. BONUS: Riccardo Chailly on Mahler 9 and Riccardo Chailly in conversation with Henry-Louis de La Grange
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"Hi James, here's your badge. Welcome to your first day of training." Judy handed me my badge and smiled. I smiled back at her and took my badge.
It was an easy choice. Back in 2013, my family was dead, and all I had was my job and my apartment. The year 1023 TTE just seemed too good to pass up. In the past two weeks, Matthew and Judy had helped me move my stuff from the past into my new apartment here, showed me around town, got me a red mug, things like that.
Training went by quickly enough. The Time Patrol Agency's main job is to prevent any illegal time travelling from happening, because if it does happen, it would be too late to stop any changes to the timeline (unless if someone managed to jump into the portal too). One big part of the TPA's mission is to monitor the flow of timetanium.
The aptly named timetanium is the alloy that is required for time travel. It is hard to make and hard to find. It is also limited in the amount of times that it can be used to time travel. This makes time travelling a very hard thing to do, but luckily, it means that it's also easier to track down anyone who is planning on doing any illegal time travelling.
A couple of rules of the TPA included not leaving technology in the past, not taking technology from the future, don't tell people what will happen in their futures, minimize any paradoxes, and if a suspect looks like they will activate a time travel device, use any means necessary to stop them, even if it means killing them. The last one, as extreme as it sounds, is necessary, because time travel can be the equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction in the wrong hands.


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