A team of researchers created ultralight metallic microlattices back in 2011, and I tried to replicate their result using commercially available, off-the-shelf materials. The authors used a special ...

The electroplating intermediate is a material used in the electroplating process to adjust characteristics such as grain size, gloss, thickness and plating speed. Most of them are configured as ...

IN the plating industry, the addition agents for bright nickel plating have been classified into two classes. The brighteners of the first can be added to a plating bath in rather higher concentration ...

New study shows how complexing agents and predictive models can improve nickel electroplating for alkaline water electrolysis ...

When the Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive came into force in 2006, the intention was to remove, as far as possible, the use of six chemicals from products on the market.

Mined chiefly from two ore families, sulfides and laterites, nickel is a shiny, silver-white, face-centred cubic transition metal that is hard, ductile, and easily alloyed. 1 Several features make it ...