Investigating of electroless nickel plating process for polypropylene nonwoven fabric

Abstract

Metalized fabric substances have a large capacity in the various scope of applications which include electromagnetic field defensive, infrared radiation safety, obtaining fabric substances with antistatic, antibacterial, electrically conductive, radio soaking up, heat reflective and other unique houses. The aim of our project work is to develop a metallized textile through Electro less Nickel Plating Technique and to optimize the process parameters to get high nickel deposition on spun bond polypropylene nonwoven fabric through Box and Behnken method. It was found that the optimum deposition taken place when the process conditions were kept at Temperature (°C) = 60, Time = 30 min and pH= 9. The SEM analysis reveal that uniform coating and existence of nickel on the surface of the substrate produced from the above optimum conditions. The concert of nickel-finished nonwoven fabric spun bond polypropylene become determined to be depending on the quantity of nickel debris adhered on the material substrate. The optimized spun bond polypropylene nickel-plated nonwoven fabric was greater in their thermal properties and color fastness to light and washing. However, there was a decrease in rubbing fastness.