Polymers and their composites are widely used for designing structures in aerospace,
automotive, electronic, sport industries due to their lightweight, cost, and processing …

ABS is an engineering plastic that has butadiene part uniformly distributed over the
acrylonitrile-styrene matrix. It possesses excellent toughness, good dimensional stability …

There are many limitations within three-dimensional (3D) printing that hinder its adaptation
into industries such as biomedical, cosmetic, processing, automotive, aerospace, and …

Electroless plating is the default industrial process for depositing glossy metallic coatings on
polymeric parts, most often made of acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene (ABS) plastic …

A typical step in the electroplating of metals to polymer substrates is the preparation of a
substrate surface through sulfochromic acid etching, which is well known for modifying the …

In order to enhance the mechanical performance of three-dimensional (3D) printed
structures fabricated via commercially available fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printers …

Applying thin metallic coating layers on the surface of polymeric parts or structures
(metallization) that is generally performed via electroplating process aims to improve both …

Electroplating is the most widely used method for coating metals on polymers, the adhesion
of which is ensured by chemical and mechanical interactions of their surface. Unfortunately …

The surface activation of ABS plastics was achieved by novel palladium-free pretreatments
that consisted of molecular grafting and self-assembling. Silver mirror reaction has been …

Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS plastic) is one of the most widely used thermoplastic
resins for electroplating. In electroplating, a glossing metallic layer is coated on the ABS …