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How To Remove Nickel Oxide: Flow Cell - To Increase The Fluid Dynamics

Here are some potential options to try removing the oxidation layer with minimal damage to the polished surface: - Electrolytic treatment in a weak acid like 5% sulfuric acid. Applying a forward polarity current will generate hydrogen bubbles that can help reduce the oxides without damaging the nickel plating. - Immersion in dilute ammonia. Ammonia is a good solvent for metal salts like nickel oxides and could dissolve the oxidation layer. - Sputter etching in a vacuum chamber. Applying a low energy ion beam can bombard and remove surface oxides without significantly altering the underlying plated surface. - Very fine polishing with 0.5 micron or less diamond paste. Polishing can abrade away

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How To Remove Nickel Oxide: Flow Cell - To Increase The Fluid Dynamics

Here are some potential options to try removing the oxidation layer with minimal damage to the polished surface: - Electrolytic treatment in a weak acid like 5% sulfuric acid. Applying a forward polarity current will generate hydrogen bubbles that can help reduce the oxides without damaging the nickel plating. - Immersion in dilute ammonia. Ammonia is a good solvent for metal salts like nickel oxides and could dissolve the oxidation layer. - Sputter etching in a vacuum chamber. Applying a low energy ion beam can bombard and remove surface oxides without significantly altering the underlying plated surface. - Very fine polishing with 0.5 micron or less diamond paste. Polishing can abrade away

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Flow cell - to increase the fluid dynamics

During plating, due to difference in temperature / unstability of the bath, Ni-P colloids form in the
solution (due to the nucleation site formation). These colloids (called as ‘plate-outs’, when deposited on
the disks, causes pull-out (a big deposit on the surface of the disk, when polished removes a layer of the
coating from the nearby surface). Hence these colloids are to be removed from the plating solution.
Flow cell was introduced for this purpose - as it continuously circulates the solution - it filters such
colloids from either the bath or plating container / any deposits from the plastic mandrel & helps in
uniform deposition on the substrate as the flow cell setup has fan shaped opening (thru which the
solution comes out after cleaning process) that sprays the plating solution on the disks as they rotate in
the mandrel. Disks are placed at an angle inside the solution so the outflow of the plating solution aids in
the uniform deposition of the chemicals and doesn’t hinder the uniformity of deposition.

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How to remove nickel oxide


I have a pure nickel surface with a very thin NiP-coating on it. I corroded it by hanging it for one
hour in HNO3-vapour. Since I would like to see (with SEM) how the surface is corroded , I need
to remove the corrosion products which are all over the place. But it must be done in such a way
that it only effects the corrosion products and not the underlying layer. What kind of reagents or
procedures are required for this?

Thanks in advance,
Margreet Spoelstra
researcher R&D - Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands

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An interesting problem. Firstly, using an SEM will usually give you a beam penetration of a
couple of microns, so you are not looking at the true surface of the nickel. This can be overcome
by using specialised SEM surface analysis techniques. Secondly, how thick is the nickel oxide?
If it is only a very thin layer, you may want to sputter clean it in a vacuum chamber, or you could
polish it with a very fine 0.5um (or less) diamond paste. It all depends on what you call the
surface....If you are not too concerned about the "surface" you could use a mild acid cleaner,
possibly with anodic polarisation; I would avoid cleaners that contain hydrochloric acid, as
chloride ions are really quite aggressive towards nickel.

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You could try a forward polarity electrolytic treatment in a weak (5%) sulfuric acid solution.
This will produce hydrogen that will act to reduce oxides and at the same time has little effect on
nickel. I am not sure, but you may also want to try an immersion in ammonia. I know it is a very
good solvent for many metal salts such as nickel sulfate and it could be just as good for nickel
nitrate which is likely to be present in your "oxidized" nickel surface.
Guillermo Marrufo
Monterrey, NL, Mexico

December 1, 2009
I have a related question. I have a diamond turned mirror that is an aluminum substrate with
electroless Ni plating. It oxidized and I want to remove the oxidation layer with minimal damage
to the polished surface. Any ideas? Help!
sam georges
- Berkeley, California

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