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Nickel adhesion to silicone

Q. I place silicone on top of Nickel plated surface --> cure at 150 °C 2 hours -- somehow the silicone leaks after that. I originally thought this is silicone issue, after that I change different silicone batches and only found this problem occur with unique batches of Nickel surface. What are the likely causes? Nickel reactivity accelerates at high temperature?

Swa Beng hooi
- Petaling Jaya
September 8, 2023

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