electroless plating

In different applications, electrolytic or electroless plating can have cost advantages.

There are many factors to consider in selection of either electrolytic or electroless plating methods.

Electroless plating and anodized aluminum were rejected because they lacked durability.

TEA is now commonly and very effectively used as a complexing agent in electroless plating.

There then follow some 170 specific methods covering all commonly used electroplating, electroless plating, cleaning, pickling and aluminium anodising solutions.

Nucleation - (Electroless plating solutions are unstable, but the difficulty of nucleation means they will only act on a metal surface.)

Electroless plating The autocatalytic deposition of nickel/phosphorous has many useful corrosion and tribo/corrosion applications.

The gold(III) chloride can also be dissolved in water in electroless plating wherein the gold is slowly reduced out of solution onto the surface to be gilded.

Direct Metalisation as well as being far more environmentally friendly than conventional Electroless plating is a significantly faster process, therefore reducing plating times and allowing us to pass on cost savings.

The most common electroless plating method is electroless nickel plating, although silver, gold and copper layers can also be applied in this manner, as in the technique of Angel gilding.

Electroless plating, also known as chemical or auto-catalytic plating, is a non-galvanic plating method that involves several simultaneous reactions in an aqueous solution, which occur without the use of external electrical power.

During the 1954-59 period, Gutzeit at GATC (General American Transportation Corporation) worked on full scale development of electroless plating by chemical reduction alone, as an alternate process to conventional electroplating.