Metallization on FDM parts using the chemical deposition technique

Coatings

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 574-586

  Equbal, Azhar ^a   Sood, Anoop kumar ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOUNDRY AND FORGE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Copper deposition; Plastic; Rapid prototyping; Surface preparation conditioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982214315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20796412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/coatings4030574     Document Type: Article

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