Pretreatment of plastic materials for metal plating

This invention relates to a process for conditioning the surfaces of natural and synthetic plastic materials for electroless plating of a metal coating thereon by exposing such materials to an atmosphere comprising an effective amount of ozone and thereafter contacting said exposed materials with an...

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Hauptverfasser: BIRKMAIER, ALBERT A, HARPELL, GARY A, LESCO, JAMES M, PATEL, GORDHANBHAI N, PONCHA, RUSTOM P, SKOVRINSKI, ADAM L, KURTZ, BRUCE E
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Zusammenfassung:This invention relates to a process for conditioning the surfaces of natural and synthetic plastic materials for electroless plating of a metal coating thereon by exposing such materials to an atmosphere comprising an effective amount of ozone and thereafter contacting said exposed materials with an effective amount of a conditioning solvent, such as an aqueous solution of sodium, potassium or lithium hydroxide.