Electroless Platinum Deposition Using Co3+/Co2+ Redox Couple as a Reducing Agent

Copper electroless plating in weakly alkaline electrolytes using DMAB as a reducing agent for metallization on polymer films

Copper electroless plating at low pH (7–9) using dimethylamine borane complex as a reducing agent is studied electrochemically by linear sweep voltammetry, cyclic voltammetry and chronopotentiometry in full electrolytes. We find that the mixed potential theory is not applicable to the described system. We show that both the working potential and the rate-controlling mechanism are dependent on t...

Electroless Deposition and Electroplating of Metals

Formation of copper nanowires by electroless deposition using microtubules as templates.

Microtubules (MTs) are self-assembling, protein-based, tubular structures several micrometers long with outer and inner diameters of 25 nm and 15 nm, respectively. This aspect ratio makes MTs ideal templates for producing nanowires for applications such as electrical nano-interconnects. MTs are poorly conductive and their use as interconnects necessitates their metallization. We report a proces...

Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Mentha aquatic L Extract as the Reducing Agent

Background: Developing effective methods for the synthesis of bio-compatible and non-toxic nanoparticles is the main goal of nanotechnology. In the most chemical methods, a chemical reducing agent is used to reduce metal ions. But, in chemical methods, the stability of nanoparticles is controversial and synthesis in large sizes is much more difficult. Moreover, there is an incr...

A platinum Chugaev carbene complex as a potent anticancer agent.

A platinum Chugaev complex was synthesised and fully characterized by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. This cis bis acyclic diamino carbene complex acts as a cytotoxic compound and behaves as a cisplatin equivalent by interacting with supercoiled DNA and thiols. Stability of the ligand is also discussed.