Letter 15675

Seeking someone to electroplate osmium  

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I am a chemistry professor, and one of my topics of research involves the element osmium. I am looking for a company that can electroplate a fairly thick layer of osmium onto a metal rod. Ideally, I would like to have an electroplated layer about 0.02" to 0.06" thick plated onto a rod that is about 0.25" in diameter, 2" in length. The substrate can be just about anything, and could be chosen to make the electroplating process simpler. I could provide a stainless steel or copper rod, for example. I will be using this electroplated rod as a source of osmium atoms in the gas phase, which will be formed by focussing a pulsed laser onto the rod surface. To prevent other metal atoms from being vaporized, I need to have the fairly thick coating that I described above. If you know of a company that could undertake this project, please send me an e-mail to let me know.

Thanks very much,

Michael D. Morse
- Salt Lake City, UT

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