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Aluminum Coating on Copper

I want to make a coating of aluminum on a copper surface. The coating must be very tight because it should isolate the copper from a gas.

Andreas Hoffmann
- Plainville, US, Connecticut
2001

Aluminum electroplating is available to coat copper with very good results. You can get a fully dense, pore free layer with a .3 mils minimum layer.

You don't mention which gas you are using, but I do know of current applications where SST is plated with aluminum and has proven to be highly resistant in environments that involve hot fluorene gas.

Brenda Struck
AlumiPlate, Inc. - Minneapolis, MN, USA
2001

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