The Electroless Nickel Plating of Silicon Carbide and Aluminium Powder Mixtures

Abstract

In this study, silicon carbide, which have been produced in laboratory and aluminum powders were tried to coat with nickel by using electroless nickel plating methods.

Aluminium particles are not as well covered as the SiC. All the nickel lines were very broad which reflects the small crystallite size but the calculated lattice parameter shows quite good agreement with the literature value of 0.35238 nm. If this work succeeds, this method can be used for preparing ceramic-metal matrix composites for the future works.

The results were obtained by the x-ray diffractometer analysis and scanning electron microscope analysis techniques