Publications related to Plating

Revealing cation and metal gradients in and underneath passive films of the stainless steel 1.4652 in acidic and alkaline electrolytes with angular resolved dual energy X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy

Stefano Mischler, Patrik Schmutz, Anna Neus Igual Muñoz, Roland Hauert

Passive films on the superaustenitic stainless steel 1.4652 were studied using angular resolved hard X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy (HAXPES), which provides an increased information depth compared to conventional X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy (XPS). ...

Wiley2023

Transparent Porous Conductive Substrates for Gas-Phase Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Marina Caroline Michèle Caretti, Benjamin Goldman, Rebekah Anne Wells, Simon Nussbaum, Emeline Cécile Rideau, Loï Charles Carbone, Elizaveta Potapova Mensi, Linda Lazouni, Hannah Elizabeth Johnson

Gas diffusion electrodes are essential components of common fuel and electrolysis cells but are typically made from graphitic carbon or metallic materials, which do not allow light transmittance and thus limit the development of gas-phase based photoelectr ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Electrode Impact on the Electrical Breakdown of Dielectric Elastomer Thin Films

Herbert Shea, Fabio Beco Albuquerque

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) enable the realization of energy-efficient and compact actuator systems. DEAs operate at the kilovolt range with typically microampere-level currents and hence minimize thermal losses in comparison to low voltage/high ...

MDPI2023

Morphology of Nanostructured Tantalum Oxide Controls Stem Cell Differentiation and Improves Corrosion Behavior

Ece Uslu

Tantalum is receiving increasing attention in the biomedical field due to its biocompatible nature and superior mechanical properties. However, the bioinert nature of tantalum still poses a challenge and limits its integration into the bone tissue. To addr ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Two-Dimensional Organic-Inorganic Heterostructure as a Multifunctional Protective Layer for High Performance Zinc Metal Anode

Kangning Zhao, Xu Zhang

Dendrite growth and side reactions of Zn metal anodes remain unresolved obstacles for practical application of aqueous Zn ion batteries. Herein, a two-dimensional (2D) organic-inorganic heterostructure with controlled thickness was constructed as a protect ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Modulating the Reactivity of Liquid Ga Nanoparticle Inks by Modifying Their Surface Chemistry

Raffaella Buonsanti, Laia Castilla Amorós, James Richard Pankhurst, Tzu-Chin Chang Chien

Micro- and nanosized particles of liquid metals, particularly Ga-based alloys, are attracting increasing attention for applications in several fields. The surface functionalization of Ga-based nanoparticles (NPs) with organic ligands renders easily process ...

2022

The Michelangelo step: removing scalloping and tapering effects in high aspect ratio through silicon vias

Edoardo Charbon, Sandro Carrara, Simone Frasca, Rebecca Camilla Leghziel

We present here, for the first time, a fabrication technique that allows manufacturing scallop free, non-tapered, high aspect ratio in through-silicon vias (TSVs) on silicon wafers. TSVs are among major technology players in modern high-volume manufacturin ...

Nature Research2021

Fretting-corrosion behavior of electroless Ni-P/Ni-P-TiO2 coatings obtained on AZ91D magnesium alloy by a chromium-free process

Stefano Mischler, Angela Bermudez Castañeda

Ni-P electroless coatings are widely applied for protection of magnesium alloys and other materials due to the low energy consumption of the process and high resistance to corrosion and wear, properties that can be improved with the incorporation of partic ...

ELSEVIER2020

Stainless steel-like FeCrNi nanostructures via electrodeposition into AAO templates using a mixed-solvent Cr(III)-based electrolyte

Enrico Bertero

Electrodeposition of stainless steel-like materials such as FeCrNi alloy into micro- and nanotemplates provides a sustainable framework for creating biomedical-oriented micro- and nanocomponents with outstanding characteristics. While Cr(III)-based electro ...

2020

Tribological behaviour of galvanic gold coatings reinforced with silica nanoparticles

Stefano Mischler, Anna Neus Igual Muñoz

Electroplated composite Au/SiO2 coatings on a nickel substrate have been produced by dispersing an emulsion of silica nanoparticles (20 nm in diameter) in an industrial hard-gold bath. The tribological behaviour of the Au/SiO2 coatings with different SiO2 ...

2020

Reproducibility warning: The curious case of polyethylene glycol 6000 and spheroid cell culture

Francesco Stellacci, Quy Ong Khac, Ahmet Bekdemir, Zhi Luo

Reproducibility of results is essential for a well-designed and conducted experiment. Several reasons may originate failure in reproducing data, such as selective reporting, low statistical power, or poor analysis. In this study, we used PEG6000 samples fr ...

2020

Exploring the Chemical Reactivity of Gallium Liquid Metal Nanoparticles in Galvanic Replacement

Raffaella Buonsanti, Seyedehbehnaz Varandili, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, Laia Castilla Amorós, James Richard Pankhurst

Micron/nanosized particles of liquid metals possess intriguing properties and are gaining popularity for applications in various research fields. Nevertheless, the knowledge of their chemistry is still very limited compared to that of other classes of mate ...

2020

Sodium plating and stripping from Na-β"-alumina ceramics beyond 1000 mA/cm2

Sophia Haussener, Corsin Battaglia, Daniel Alexander Landmann

Dendrite formation limits the cycle life of lithium and sodium metal anodes and remainsa major challenge for their integration into next-generation batteries, even whenreplacing the liquid electrolyte by a solid electrolyte. Voids forming in solid metal an ...

2020

Colloidal-ALD-Grown Core/Shell CdSe/CdS Nanoplatelets as Seen by DNP Enhanced PASS-PIETA NMR Spectroscopy

David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Laura Piveteau

Ligand exchange and CdS shell growth onto colloidal CdSe nanoplatelets (NPLs) using colloidal atomic layer deposition (c-ALD) were investigated by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments, in particular, dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) e ...

2020

Tribological properties of gold matrix composite coatings with carbon nanocapsules containing ionic liquid lubricants

Stefano Mischler, Anna Neus Igual Muñoz

Self-lubricating, gold matrix composite coatings were produced by electrochemical codeposition of carbon nanocapsules filled with ionic liquid (IL) from a colloidal galvanic bath on a nickel electrode. The tribological response of the composite coatings wa ...

ELSEVIER2020

Fabrication of Sub-10-nm Plasmonic Gaps for Ultra-Sensitive Raman Spectroscopy

Hatice Altug, Arif Engin Cetin

The past two decades have witnessed the explosion of activities in the field of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). SERS platforms employ nano-structures that excite plasmonic modes with large local electromagnetic fields localized within small gap ...

SPRINGER2020

Tribological response of multilayered gold nickel coating deposited on fine turned surfaces

Stefano Mischler, Valentine Agnès Madeleine Magnin

Gold coating are widely used in industry due to their corrosion resistance, electrical conductivity and low contact resistance. However, friction and wear can limit their functionality and lifetime. This study addresses the degradation of a commercial fine ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

'Green' Cr(iii)-glycine electrolyte for the production of FeCrNi coatings: electrodeposition mechanisms and role of by-products in terms of coating composition and microstructure

Stefano Mischler, Johann Michler, Enrico Bertero

The electrodeposition of stainless steel-like FeCrNi alloys for miniaturised devices is appealing as it would allow combining excellent material properties (e.g. corrosion resistance, hardness, biocompatibility) at low-cost. However, conventional baths oft ...

2019

Tribological and tribocorrosion behavior of nickel sliding against oxide ceramics

Stefano Mischler, Anna Neus Igual Muñoz, Shoufan Cao, Junxiao Du

Nickel is widely used as a coating material in electroplating because of its good corrosion and wear resistance even at high temperature. Tribocorrosion has been identified as one of the main degradation mechanisms of nickel. This study evaluated the tribo ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Print-Light-Synthesis of Ni and NiFe-nanoscale catalysts for oxygen evolution

Hubert Girault, Emad Oveisi, Mounir Driss Mensi, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Victor Costa Bassetto

By hyphenating inkjet printing and flash light irradiation, Ni- and NiFe-nano-electrocatalysts of diameters below 2.5 nm with ultralow loadings below 2 µg·cm–2 are synthesized. To achieve this, nanoliter ink volumes containing Ni and Fe chlorides as cataly ...

2019