Abstract:Electroless Nickel-phosphorus (EN) coatings provide high performance in various industrial fields due to their unique properties such as excellent corrosion and wear resistance. This paper aims to study the effect of ZnO nano-particles addition on corrosion behavior of EN coatings. Various amounts of ZnO nano-particles with average diameter of 50 nm were added to hypophosphite reduced ...

Advanced hybrid microelectronics require high performance packaging materials and components. Alumina, the most widely used ceramic material in microelectronics, is being replaced by new high performance materials such as aluminum nitride (AlN) and beryllia (BeO). AlN's thermal conductivity is an order of magnitude greater than alumina and it has a thermal expansion coefficient very close to si...

As shown in article number 2002133 by Rong-Ming Ho and co-workers, gold nanohelices for chiral plasmonic polymer films can be fabricated using self-assembled block copolymers as templates templated electroless plating. The nanohelix serve absorber scatterer the polymeric manipulating circular-polarized light based on its chirality. This bottom-up approach suggests a facile method fabrication of...

A novel approach for multicomponent patterning metal/metal oxide nanoparticles on graphene was developed, which involves region-specific plasma treatment, followed by region-selective substrate-enhanced electroless deposition of Au nanoparticles and solution alkalization of ferrous chloride tetrahydrate in the presence of ammonia into Fe3O4 nanoparticles. The resultant Fe3O4/Au multicomponent m...

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We present a technique for patterning thin-film metals (silver and gold) without the need for photolithography. The technique involves microfluidics and can be performed on planar or curved surfaces. Patterns of thin-film metal are fabricated by flowing electroless silver or gold plating solutions through predefined microchannels made of polydimethylsiloxane sealed against a surface of interest...