Studies of inducing process of electroless nickeling I: Estimation of catalytic activity of metals and the mechanism of reaction.

Abstract

Electroless plating is known to be an autocatalytic process. For the reaction to start, the substrate metall should be either catalytic or activated by a suitable catalyst. For example, steel and nickel can be plated directly, but in the case of copper or brass, catalytic metal inducing is need. In this paper, the catalytic activity of different metals and their inducing effects were in vestigated by measuring stationary potentials nd stationary potential-time curves. Experimental results showed: (1) The stationary potential of metal provides a simple parameter to estimate the catalytic activity of metals in electroless nickeling. When 1-hydroxyethylidenediphosphonic acid (HEDP) aelectroless nickeling bath containing NaH2PO2 as reducing agent is used, electrolessnickeling may proceed spontaneously, if the stationary potential of metal is more nagative than -0.60V, no matter whether nickel (autocatalytic active) or other metals(non-autocatalytic active) is used as substrate. (2)When an autocatalytic meta is in contact with the substrate metal in the bath, a sudden decrease of stationary potential is observed. The whole inducing process could be finished within 0.5-2 sec. (3) The stationary potential of electroless nickeling coating in HEDP bath at 80`C is-0.72V, consequently nickel coating itself is a catalytic active metal. Once an electroless nickeling coating is deposited on a substrate metal, electroless nickeling reaction can then proceed continuously. (4) The sufficient conditions of electroless nickeling in HEDP bath containing NaH2PO2 are that the stationary potential of substrate metal must be more nagative than -0.60V and that the temperature of electroless nickeling bath should be higher than 50`C. (5) Inducing mechanism of electroless nickeling can be explained with chemical cell consisting of substrate metal and catalytic metal. Electrons from catalytic metal would suddenly decrease the stationary potential of substrate metal, H+ and Ni2+ complex ion would be reduced on the substrate me

Key words: REACTION MECHANISM, METAL CATALYST, CHEMICAL PLATING, NICKEL PLATING, EVOKED RESPONSE

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FANG JINGLI. Studies of inducing process of electroless nickeling I: Estimation of catalytic activity of metals and the mechanism of reaction.[J]. Acta Chimica Sinica, 1983, 41(2): 129-138.

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