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Improving Electroless Ag Plating by Depositing Graphene Oxide/Polymer Composite Film on the Ag Layer for Corrosion Protection

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In this work, a meta-aramid (PMIA) substrate was pretreated by embedding a Ag catalyst, and an environmentally friendly ammonia-free silver plating bath was designed for electroless silver plating to fabricate a silver-plated material (PMIA-Ag). Furthermore, a graphene oxide/polyethylenimine (GO/PEI)10 film was prepared via the layer-by-layer self-assembly technique. By implementing hydrophobic modification of heptadecafluorodecyltriethoxysilane (PFDS) on the film surface, a (GO/PEI)10-PFDS composite protective film was also fabricated. The results showed that PMIA-Ag prepared via the improved electroless plating technique had good electrical properties. The sheet resistance was 20-30 mΩ/sq and the average electromagnetic shielding effectiveness was 68.23 dB in the frequency range of 30-3000 MHz. Moreover, the prepared (GO/PEI)10-PFDS composite protective film exhibited excellent anti-corrosion and anti-tarnish properties. The electrochemical data showed that the surface coverage of the protective film on the silver coating was 96.48%, while the corrosion inhibition efficiency on the silver coating reached 85.28%.

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Zhang, H., Xue, X. Improving Electroless Ag Plating by Depositing Graphene Oxide/Polymer Composite Film on the Ag Layer for Corrosion Protection. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 32, 4807–4816 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-022-07395-y

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