aluminum plating?
aluminum plating?
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has anybody electroplated a high purity aluminum layer onto 6061?
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RE: aluminum plating?
A commercial vendor: http://www.alumiplate.com/
You can follow up these research reports:
'Progress in Surface Finishing with Lewis Acidic Room-Temperature Chloroaluminate Ionic Liquids,' T. Tsuda, C. Hussey (The University of Mississippi) and G. R. Stafford (NIST)
'Practical Aluminum Plating from a Room Temperature Ionic Liquid,' M. T. Carter and G. Bourgon (Eltron Research, Inc.)
'In Situ Stress Measurements During Aluminum Deposition from AlCl3-EtMeImCl,' G. R. Stafford (NIST), O. E. Kongstein (Norwegian University of Science and Technolog) and E. Sandnes (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology).
Aluminum is usually plated by Ion Vapor Deposition (IVD).
RE: aluminum plating?
RE: aluminum plating?
As far as I know pure aluminum doesn't need anodizing for corrosion protection. This is the whole idea of alclad aluminum sheets for airplane wing and body sheets structures (such as 2024-T3 alclad sheets). Pure aluminum similar to 18-8 stainless steel forms a natural protective oxide.
RE: aluminum plating?