Electroless deposition of a quasi-monolayer (q-ML) of Pt and/or Pd on different Au substrates is achieved by using CO as both reducing and quenching agents, imparting Au@Pt/C or Au@Pd/C with superior electrocatalytic activity for ethanol oxidation in alkaline media.

Fully spectroscopic x/γ-ray imaging is now possible thanks to advances in the growth of wide-bandgap semiconductors. One of the most promising materials is cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe or CZT), which has been demonstrated in homeland security, medical imaging, astrophysics and industrial analysis applications. These applications have demanding energy and spatial resolution requirements that a...

A 3-dimensional porous material prepared by transferring a sponge structure of biomineral is coated nickel via aqueous electroless plating.

This work connects the neocybernetic theory of elastic systems to modeling of a complex industrial process. It turns out that using simple mathematics combined with multilinear tools leads to linear models that can be used for monitoring and control. As an application example, electroless nickel plating is studied.

A low-cost, solution-processed, versatile, microfluidic approach is developed for patterning structures of highly conductive metals (e.g., copper, silver, and nickel) on chemically modified flexible polyethylene terephthalate thin films by in situ polymer-assisted electroless metal deposition. This method has significantly lowered the consumption of catalyst as well as the metal plating solution.

Immunoglobulin G templates: Clusters of gold nanoparticles are grown (see picture) from templates formed from the self-assembly of immunoglobulin Gs (IgGs) by using a synthetic divalent antigen. Carbohydrates inherent to IgGs create local nucleation centers for the electroless deposition of gold.

The fabrication of fully three-dimensional photonic crystals with a bandgap at optical wavelengths is demonstrated by way of direct femtosecond laser writing of an organic-inorganic hybrid material with metal-binding moieties, and selective silver coating using electroless plating. The crystals have 600-nm intralayer periodicity and sub-100 nm features, and they exhibit well-defined diffraction...

Electroless composite coatings used for achieving of high hardness, lubrication properties, non-stick surface, abrasive coating applications that by impregnation of soft and hard particles into Ni matrix. Electroless Nickel-phosphorous coatings properties and performance is greatly affected by the amount of phosphorus in them. The phosphor in this coating usually varies from 1 to 13 percent. In...

Highly ordered noncrystalline boron-doped nickel nanotube arrays are rapidly synthesized within 150 s by template-based electroless deposition. The as-prepared nanotubes have tunable magnetic properties and exhibit super efficient catalytic activity (∼70 s) for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol.