US3006823A - Plating bath and process - Google Patents
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- C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
- C23F—NON-MECHANICAL REMOVAL OF METALLIC MATERIAL FROM SURFACE; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL; MULTI-STEP PROCESSES FOR SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL INVOLVING AT LEAST ONE PROCESS PROVIDED FOR IN CLASS C23 AND AT LEAST ONE PROCESS COVERED BY SUBCLASS C21D OR C22F OR CLASS C25
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- C25D—PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
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- This invention relates to chromium plating, and more particularly it relates to chromium plating from a new and improved electrolytic plating bath.
- the present commercial chromium plating processes are based on the electrolysis of chromium trioxide, CrO (chromic acid) solutions containing small amounts of a catalyst, e.g., sulfates, fluorides or the like.
- a catalyst e.g., sulfates, fluorides or the like.
- the current density and temperature during plating must be closely controlled. Even when closely controlling the current density, temperature and chromic acid-catalyst ratio, the throwing power of the plating bath is very low as compared to other metal plating processes. Because of poor throwing power, it is necessary to provide anodes conforming to the shape of the object to be plated.
- the current eificiency of the commercial plating baths is usually no greater than 812% and under the most optimum conditions only to Also, objectionably large volumes of oxygen and hydrogen are given ofi during plating as a result of which a highly noxious and corrosive spray of chromic acid is always present over the plating bath during the plating operation. Again, large amounts of chromic acid are lost by drag-out and spray due to the necessity of employing rather highly concentrated amounts of chromic acid in commercial baths.
- Another object is to provide a new and improved plating process in which chromium is plated from a plating bath containing chromium in trivalent form and which will exhibit good current efiiciency and throwing power and will produce excellent bright chromium plate.
- the above objects may be accomplished, in general, by preparing an electrolytic aqueous chromium plating bath comprising chromic carboxylate, a carboxylic acid and boric acid.
- the chromic carboxylate and the carboxylic acid, and possibly other bath constitutents appear to be present, to a considerable extent, in the form of a combined complex chemical structure in which chromium has the valence of three.
- the bath should have a pH value between 1.5 and 3.0.
- a chromium plating bath and process is described and claimed in which the aqueous electrolytic chromium plating bath comprises a chromic carboxylate, sodium carboxylate, a carboxylic acid, sodium fluoride and boric acid, and in which the pH is between 3.5 and 4.5.
- the bath of this invention (litters from the Berzins bath only in the preferred exclusion of a fluoride, the presence of little or no alkali carboxylate, and a different pH, it appears that the complex compounds present in the two baths differ greatly from each other. This is evidenced by the fact that the pH Value of 3.5 to 4.5 of the Berzins bath will produce exceedingly poor or no plating whatever if employed in this bath and vice versa if the pH value of 1.5 to 3.0 of this bath is employed in the Berzins bath no useful plating can be accomplished. Moreover, the bath of this invention excels outstandingly the Berzins bath in the working range which can be attained with good current efliciency.
- the electrolytic plating bath of this invention may be operated electrolytically at room temperature or temperatures as high as 65 C. to deposit bright, continuous, highly corrosion-resistant chromium plate.
- the metallic surface to be plated is first thoroughly cleaned in accordance with cleaning procedures well established in the art.
- the metallic surface to be plated for example, copper, copper alloys, bronze, brass or nickel surface is smooth and polished so as to produce a bright chromium plated finish.
- the metallic object to be plated is suspended as the cathode in the aforesaid electrolytic bath and spaced fairly evenly from an inert anode, such as a carbon, graphite, platinum or platinized titanium anode.
- the plating may be carried out by passing an electric current of 25 to 200 amperes per square foot between said cathode and anode.
- the plating baths of this invention are greatly superior to commercial hexavalent chromium plating baths in current efiiciency, throwing power and plating range. These terms are, for convenience, defined as follows:
- Current efiiciency is generally defined as the ratio of weight of metal actually deposited by a given current for a given time to that which would have been deposited if electro-reduction of the desired metal were eflicient. The latter is calculated from Faradays law, which says that 96,500 coulombs (ampere-seconds) is required to electrodeposit one gram equivalent of metal, if no side-reactions occur such as liberation of hydrogen. Current efliciency is commonly expressed as percent. It is important to note that current eiiiciencies as thus calculated are not directly comparable between VI, III, and l'I-valent chromium.
- Throwing power is a term used in the plating industry to signify the degree to which plating occurs in recesses or on surfaces which are remote from the anode as compared with plating on flat surfaces or those near of each specific bath the plating is burned or discolored, matt, spongy, or otherwise defective. Between these limits, which I will call threshold current density and ceiliug'current density, good plating occurs. It is evident that if this range is very narrow, the system will have poor throwing power. This is a present handicap in commercial chromium plating. 'It is also evident that'if this range is very broad and the ceiling current density occurs at very heavy currents, then plating can be very rapid, even if current efficiency is only moderately good.
- Chromic carboxylate of the bath may be the chromic salt of a carboxylic acid, for example, the chromic salt of glycolic,'lactic, formic or oxalic acids or mixtures thereof.
- the preferred chromic carboxylates are chromic salts of alpha-hydroxy carboxylic acids for example, glycolic and lactic acids, the cromic glycolate having given the best results.
- These carboxylates may be added to the platingbath as such or they may be formed in the bath by dissolving chromic hydroxide or carbonate or even metallic chromium in the carboxylic acid and the pH adjustedwith sodium hydroxide or carbonate.
- a convenient way of preparing the chromic carboxylates is based on the reduction of chromic acid (CrO with the carboxylic acid, for example, glycolic acid, in accordance with the equation:
- the glycolic to chromic ion ratio is maintained between 1.1 to 1 and 2.1 to 1.
- the threshold current density increases undesirably.
- Large amounts of unionized glycolic acid or other acids (even at unchanged pH) undesirably raise the threshold current density. I believe this is caused by a competing useless reaction jat'the cathode which liberates hydrogen from the unionized acid.
- the excess glycolic acid (over a ratio of 1 glycolic to l chromium) should be small. If maximum current efliciency is desired, this ratio may be somewhat increased in therange specified. -Some satisfactory plates have been obtained when the carboxylic acid is formic or oxalic, or mixtures of these with glycolic acid. The properties of these plating systems are inferior to those containing only glycolic acid, either in current efliciency or plating range or brilliance of plate.
- the concentration of chromium in the plating bath is suitably 0.5, 1, or 1.5 moles per liter. Results do not depend very critically on concentration.
- the concentration of carboxylic acid is specified by this and the ratio .cited above.
- the bath of the present process contains smaller amounts.
- free glycolate ion cannot exceed 0.04 mole per liter, as calculated from the dissociation constant of glycolic acid at 25 C.:
- the boric acid may be added as borax, boron oxide, or boric acid. Without the presence of boric acid, bright chromium plating can be obtained only within an impractically narrow range of current densities. Boric acid expands this range tremendously. It is preferred to use it at as high a concentration as possible within the limit 01 solubility; that is, about one mole per liter.
- the plating bath of this invention needs the addition of an alkali metal salt of a strong acid.
- the water solution of the chromium complex formed in this bath has a .very low electric conductivity.
- the alkali metal salt of a strong acid is necessary to furnish the conductivity required for practical electroplating.
- the cation of the aforesaid salt can be sodium or potassium, the latter being preferred for higher conductivity.
- the strong acid anions should be anions that are not reduced at the cathode during the electroplating operation.
- some of the above-mentioned anions cause problems at the anode.
- chloride ions liberate noxious chlorine at the anode, or in the case of perchlorate ions, the chromium complex may be oxidized electrically at the anode to hexavalent chromium which is detrimental to plating performance.
- These difliculties may be partly avoided by placing the anode in a separate compartment with aporous diaphragm to limit mixing of the solution from the anode and cathode regions. These difliculties may be completely avoided by isolating the anode within a cation-permeable membrane.
- the above-named constituents of the electrolytic plating bath of this invention are preferably present in certain proportions. In 1000 grams of plating solution, it is preferred that the several constituents be present in about the following number of gram-moles depending, of course, upon the particular compounds used, it being understood that the constituents may be present as complex chemical combinations, and reference to amounts of the following specific compounds is to be regarded from a standpoint of equivalence
- the chromium plating bath of this invention is maintained at a pH between 1.5-3.0 and preferably between 2.0-2.7. If the pH is reduced, the threshold curient density increases. This may be undesirable if carried too far. However, plating efficiency and plating range generally increase somewhat. If pH is raised, the reverse efiects occur. There is no single pH at which all plating may be carried out at best results; however, in general, when the pH reaches 3.5 nearly all plating ceases.
- acids having a dissociation constant of between about and 10* and their salts other than the carboxylic acids specified in amounts to be present at a ratio to chromic ion of 0.7 to 1 to 3 to 1, or preferably 1.1 to l to 2.1 to 1.
- Such acids and salts appear to raise the threshold current density at which the bath may be used to obtain bright plates.
- one mole of chromic acid may, for example, be reacted with 1.6 moles of glycolic acid.
- 0.5 mole of glycolic acid is needed, 1.0 mole is present to form the desired complex and 0:1 mole for excess.
- the chromic acid may not all be reduced, and the residue may be detrimental for further work.
- the chromic acid, dissolved in water should be cautiously added to the glycolic acid dissolved in water at 90-100 C. When all added, the solution should be boiled for one hour to complete the reaction. It is very undesirable to reverse the order of addition, because then the reaction mixture sets to a gel before all the glycolic acid is added.
- the product of the reaction is a deep green solution which evaporates to a non-crystalline green glassy ma terial.
- This material appears to be a basic chromium glycolate complex containing one gram mole of glycolic acid per gram atom of chromium, together with about 0.1 mole of free glycolic acid.
- chromium glycolate complex prepared as above, commercial chemicals are used to make up the rest of the bath. After mixing these, the solution is heated to boiling and then cooled to equilibrate the various chromium complexes that may be present in the bath.
- Brass plated with I acquired a bright chromium plate the current density range from 25 to over 200 amp/sq. ft. In the upper end of this range the plate appeared a little hazy. Plating efiiciency at amp./ sq. ft, as calculated from weight gain, was about 10% (as good as 20% with a hexavalent chromium bath).
- Brass plated with II developed a bright chromium plate within the current density range from 25 to over 200 amp/sq. ft, with only a trace of haze at the upper end of the range. Plating efficiency at 100 amp/sq. it. was about 7%.
- the octyl alcohol is added to improve smoothness and prevent pitting.
- Nickel plated with this solution developed an extremely bright chromium plate from 18 to over 200 amp/sq. ft. There was no trace of haze.
- Plating solutions of this type commonly yielded 10 to 17% current eificiency at 100- 200 amp/sq. ft.
- Example IV Sodium perchlorate, NaClO 2.0 Trivalent chromium, Cr+++ 1.0 Glycolic acid, CH OH-COOH 1.2 Boric acid, H BO 1.0 Octyl alcohol 0.01
- Brass plated with the above electrolyte acquired a very bright chromium plate with a current density of from 36 to over amperes per square foot.
- Example VI [Gram moles per liter of solution] Sodium sulfate, Na SO 1.0 Boric acid, H BO 0.7 Trivalent chromium, Cr 1.0 Sodium binoxalate, NaHC O 1.0 Ox-a lic acid, H C O 1.0
- Brass plated with 'this electrolyte acquired a smooth chromium plate over the current density range of 50 to over, 120 amperes per square root; Thecolor was not as amps/sq; at 20 C. to 65 C(with a cathodic current efliciency of to 25% based on trivalent chromium. Based'on hexavalent chromium; these current efiic'iencim are-1'0 to 50%.) Any pitting of chromium plate may be'eliminated'by the addition of a small amount of a higher alcohol having 5 to 12 carbon atoms, for example, n-octyl alcohol.
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