Study on Process of Silver Electroless Plating on Surface of Glass Fibre

A Ag electroless plating process of glass fibre is employed with replacing the conventional PdCl2 activator by AgNO3 to reduce the cost of the process.The glass fibres were pretreated through ultrasonic coarsening process,sensitizing process,activating process and so on.The effects of the concentration of AgNO3 and the glucose,pH and the loadage on the properties,such as the electroless deposition rate,the film thickness of Ag,the resistivity,were discussed.The low density Ag-coated glass fibre may be utilized for Electromagnetic shielding applications as an electroconductive filler of macromolecule materials.