richlorotrifluoroethane (CFC-113) T has been widely used to remove machining oils from metals after those metals have been stamped and formed. In many cases, removal of the hydrocarbon machining oils is necessary before the metals can undergo further processing such as electroplating. In other situations, the stamping occurs as the last step in the process and the formed metal parts must be cle...

In this study, we established a low-cost, high-precision process for fabricating all-metal substrates supermirrors neutron focusing. The key material substrate is amorphous plating, which can be polished to achieve the sub-nm surface roughness required fabricate multilayer supermirrors, and phosphorus-rich electroless Ni-P plating. This fabrication was through multiple prototypes of focusing mi...

Title of dissertation: THE EFFECT OF BORIC ACID ON THE GROWTH MECHANISM OF ELECTRODEPOSITED METAL NANOSTRUCTURES Lauren M. Graham, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Prof. Sang Bok Lee Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Electrochemical deposition (ECD) has been a primary method of metal plating for a variety of applications for nearly 100 years. Its popularity is due to it...

One of the problems electroplating industry is periodic discharge concentrated spent electrolytes together with rinsing wastewater. This leads to irreversible loss valuable components, as well risk heavy metal ions entering environment, which have toxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic effects. The paper presents research on processing from zinc, nickel, copper, cadmium plating, collected over 3 ye...

Electroless Ni-P (EN) plating, as an important group of metallic coatings, employed in a wide range of industrial applications. The current work aims to investigate the effects of pretreatment process before EN plating on fatigue behavior of SAE 1045 steel. The specimens of rotating bending fatigue test were prepared from the steel in two series. A group of samples used in as-polished con...

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...

Metal ceramic partial fixed dental prostheses have been commonly used for the replacement of missing teeth for many years. Because of an increase in the price of gold, base metal alloys have been the choice of alloy for the fabrication of metal ceramic restorations in many dental clinics. Some major disadvantages of base metals are their corrosion and the dark coloration they may cause at the c...

For many years, the selective emitter approach has been well-known to yield cell efficiencies well above those achieved by conventional screen-printed cells. A simple and effective way of forming a selective emitter can be achieved by laser doping to simultaneously pattern the dielectric with openings as narrow as 8 m, and create heavy doping beneath the metal contacts. In conjunction with las...