부산대학교 도서관

In this work, we employed an electroless nickel plating on glass fibers in order to enhance the electric conductivity offibers. And the effects of metal content and plating time on the conductivity of fibers were investigated. From the results,island-like metal clusters were found on the fiber surfaces in initial plating state, and perfect metallic layers were observedcconductivity showed similar trends. The nickel cluster sizes on fibers decreased with increasing plating time, indicating thatsurface energetics of the fibers could become more homogeneous and make well-packed metallic layers, resulting in the highconductivity of Ni/glass fibers.