Article
  • Electroless Ni Plating of Monodisperse Polymer Particles
  • Kim DO, Shon WI, Jin JH, Oh SH
  • 단분산 가교 고분자 미립자의 무전해 니켈도금 연구
  • 김동옥, 손원일, 진정희, 오석헌
Abstract
Monodisperse PMMA/HDDA polymer particles were coated via electroless Ni plating using sodium hypophosphite as a reducing agent in an acidic environment. In this study, the effects of 1) the pretreatment conditions, 2) the plating temperature, 3) the plating pH, and 4) the initial pH, control of plating bath on the variation of plating rate, surface state of plated particles and plating reproducibility were investigated. It was observed that every pretreatment steps, especially conditioning and acceleration step, were very important for obtaining uniform Ni plating and the plating rate was increased with the increase of plating temperature and pH. Moreover, the initial pH control of plating bath was critical for the plating reproducibility.

산성 도금조에서 차인산나트륨을 환원제로 하는 무전해 도금법을 사용하여 직경 4 m의 PMMA(polymethylmethacrylate)/HDDA(1,6-hexanedioldiacrylate) 단분산 가교 고분자 미립자에 니켈층을 코팅할 시 1) 전처리 조건변화, 2) 도금조 온도변화, 3) 도금조 pH 변화, 및 4) 초기 도금조 pH 조절 등에 따라서 도금속도, 도금면의 상태 및 도금 재현성을 관찰하였다. 무전해 도금에서의 전처리 과정은 모든 단계가 중요하였으나 특히 conditioning 및 acceleration 과정이 균일한 도금층을 형성하는데 중요하였고, 도금조 온도 및 pH의 상승에 따라서 도금속도가 증가하였으며, 특히 초기 도금조의 pH의 조절이 도금 재현성을 확보하는데 매우 중요하였다.

Keywords: monodisperse polymer particle; electroless Ni plating; pretreatment; reducing agent; reproducibility

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  • Polymer(Korea) 폴리머
  • Frequency : Bimonthly(odd)
    ISSN 0379-153X(Print)
    ISSN 2234-8077(Online)
    Abbr. Polym. Korea
  • 2023 Impact Factor : 0.4
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This Article

  • 2007; 31(3): 184-188

    Published online May 25, 2007

  • Received on Nov 10, 2006
  • Accepted on Jan 16, 2007