| Abstract: A process for metallizing a three-dimensional-printed polymeric structure
includes soaking the three-dimensional-printed polymeric structure in a
metal salt solution; transferring the three-dimensional polymeric
structure to a solution comprising a first reducing agent; soaking the
three-dimensional polymeric structure in a metal plating bath, the metal
plating bath comprising a coordinating agent, a palladium or platinum
salt, a pH buffer component, and a second reducing agent, to form a metal
plated polymeric structure. A metal plated porous structure and an
apparatus for improving metallization are also disclosed. |
| Filed: 8/8/2017 |
| Application Number: 15/671345 |
| This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |
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