Title

Electroless copper coating of zirconia utilizing palladium catalyst

Authors

Authors

S. Shukla;S. Seal

Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Am. Ceram. Soc.

Keywords

RAY PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY; METAL-CLUSTERS; OXIDE; PARTICLES; PHOTOEMISSION; POLYCRYSTAL; MECHANISM; CERAMICS; CARBON; SILVER; Materials Science, Ceramics

Abstract

Electroless Cu coating of zirconia particles using a Pdo catalyst is investigated in this paper. Uncoated and Cu-coated ZrO2 particles are characterized by various analytical techniques to understand the mechanism of electroless Cu coating of ZrO2 particles, which involves reduction of Pd2+ on ZrO2 particle surfaces by Sn2+ to produce pure metallic Pdo clusters, which provide catalytic sites for Cu deposition. The concept of XPS core-level binding energy shift due to small cluster size is utilized to predict the size of pure Pdo clusters.. The electroless Cu-coating process can be utilized in the future to produce Cu-doped ZrO particles required for various potential applications.

Journal Title

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volume

86

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

279

Last Page

285

WOS Identifier

WOS:000180914900012

ISSN

0002-7820

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