Fabrication of lotus-type porous copper electroplated with a nanostructured nickel coating, a suggested way to increase catalytic properties

In this research a new method was implied for fabricating the lotus-type porous copper. Nanostructured nickel porous filter was also made by pulse plating of lotus-type porous copper in nickel electrolyte bath. Results of X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed that pulse plating process of lotus-type porous copper in a watts type bath led to nanostructured morphology enhancing the mechanical and physical properties of the filter. XRD results indicated that nickel coating with a polycrystalline structure can be deposited on both inner and outer surface of the pores. This may lead to improve the catalytic properties significantly

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lotus-type ، porous ، pulse plating ، nanostructure ، catalysts