THE EFFECT OF PREPARED PARAMETERS ON THE MICROSTRUCTURE OF ELECTRODEPOSITED NANOCRYSTALLINE NICKEL COATING

C. Y. Dai, Yihui Pan, S. Jiang and Y. C. Zhou ()
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C. Y. Dai: Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Rheological Properties of Ministry of Education, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, 411105, China;
S. Jiang: Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Rheological Properties of Ministry of Education, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, 411105, China;
Y. C. Zhou: Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Rheological Properties of Ministry of Education, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, 411105, China;

Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 2004, vol. 11, issue 04n05, 433-442

Abstract: The nanocrystalline nickel coating was synthesized by pulse-jet electrodeposition from modified Watts bath. Pulse and jet plating was employed to increase the deposition current density, decrease diffusion layer, increase the nucleation rate and in this case the prepared method would result in fine-grained deposits. Transmission and scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to study the microstructure, the surface morphology, the crystal preferred orientation and the variety of the lattice parameter respectively. The influence of pulse parameters, namely peak current density, the duty cycle and pulse frequency on the grain size, surface morphology, crystal orientation and microstructure was studied. The results showed that with increasing peak current density, the deposit grain size was found to decrease markedly in other parameters at constant. However, in our experiment it was found that the grain size increased slightly with increasing pulse frequency. For higher peak current density, the surface morphology was smoother. The crystal orientation progressively changed from an almost random distribution to a strong (111) texture. This means that the peak current density was the dominated parameter to effect the microstructure of electrodeposited nanocrystalline nickel coating. In addition, the lattice parameter for the deposited nickel is calculated from XRD and it is found that the calculated value is less than the lattice parameter for the perfect nickel single crystal. This phenomenon is explained by the crystal lattice mismatch.

Keywords: Pulse-jet plating; microstructure; parameters; overpotential; lattice parameters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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