Adhesion of electroless metal deposits to plastics.

Properties of Electroless Nickel - Phosphorus PPF Deposits after Crystallization

t is well recognized that electroless I.' nickel-phosphorus offers excellent deposition characteristics, such as uniform coverage, freedom from porosity, hardness, corrosion resistance, solderability, braze and weldability, wear resistance and lubricity.' Interest in the properties of electroless nickel has grown in recent years, leading to the development of wide-ranging applications, a compre...

Substrate-enhanced electroless deposition of metal nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes.

By simply supporting carbon nanotubes with a metal substrate of a redox potential lower than that of the metal ions to be reduced into nanoparticles, we have developed a facile yet versatile and effective substrate-enhanced electroless deposition (SEED) method for functionalizing nanotubes with a large variety of metal nanoparticles, including those otherwise impossible by more conventional ele...

Adhesion and Scratch Resistance of Coatings on Plastics

Progress on these topics is occasionally updated in Coating Materials News (CMN) issues since polymer substrates are being used with greater frequency in displays, solar panels, laminated window glazing, reflectors for illumination, and other optical applications. Injection molded or form cast polymer parts are now mass-produced as economical and light-weight replacements for glass parts. The s...

Metallic Coagents for Rubber-To-Metal Adhesion

Routes to greener plastics

How to hide a dimension from view Compacted dimensions are essential ingredients of advanced string theories; the extra dimensions used to describe the world are hidden from view, or compacted. Pendry et al. used concepts of transformation optics, in which metamaterials are designed to produce specific optical properties, to show theoretically that compacted dimensions could be possible in plas...