Dispersion of 2D carbon nitride (C3N4) nanosheets into a nickel phosphorous (NiP) matrix was successfully achieved by ultrasonication during the electroless plating of NiP from an acidic bath. The morphology and thickness, elemental analysis, phases, roughness, and wettability for as-plated and heat-treated nanocomposite were determined by scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray s...

m e pretreatment process can significantly affect the corrosion resistance of Electroless Nickel (EN) coatings. One of the most important reasons is that different pretreatment processes can give different surface morphologies of the substrate. The Sanning Electronic Microscope (SEM) and the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) have been used to investigate the structure and properties of EN coa...

In this paper, the authors present an experimental study of roughness characteristics of electroless Ni-B coatings and optimization of the coating process parameters based on L27 Taguchi orthogonal design. Three coating process parameters are considered viz. bath temperature, reducing agent concentration, and nickel source concentration. It is observed that concentration of reducing agent toget...

Nickel-based activated carbon was prepared from coconut shell activated carbon by electroless plating with palladium-free activation. The materials were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersion spectroscopy (EDS), vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM), and vector network analyzer, respectively. The results show that the surface of the activated carbon was cover...

Integral nickel–phosphorus (NiP) resistors were fabricated on flexible polyimide (PI) substrates by electroless NiP deposition. The deposition process was first set up for standard rigid epoxy substrates and then modified for the flexible substrates. The effects of the PI surface modifications on the interfacial adhesion (NiP/PI) were measured experimentally by the pull-off method. The process ...

The thermal spraying surface engineering industry relies on manual spraying and standard pre-programmed robotic systems. This research presents the completed geometric forward and inverse kinematics solution for a non standard articulated robotic manipulator which includes continuous 360 axis rotation for waist, shoulder and elbow joints with a commercially available joint for tilt and pitch. T...