Beiträge zur galvanisierung von polymeren, 7. Metallisierung von epoxidharzen mit hilfe von haftvermittlern

Epoxy resins can be coated with a metal after being covered with a platable adhesive. Such an adhesive consists of a partly epoxidized styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer, an epoxy prepolymer and an amine curer. The contents of these substances in the mixture and the nature of the amine influence the peel strength of the metal layer. The maximum peel strength with a value of about 45 N/25 mm was obtained after using a low molecular weight amine, while values of only about 10 N/25 mm could be obtained with amines of higher molecular weight.     

Beiträge zur galvanisierung von polymeren, 5. Untersuchungen zur morphologie der galvanischen kupferschicht

The structure of a 15–20 μm thick copper layer, which is deposited electrochemically on copolymers of acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene from bathes containing additives is extremely distorted. This is caused by microstresses and paracrystalline lattice distortions. On the other hand, the structure of the copper layer deposited from a pure bath is independent of the chemical pre-conditioning of the polymer surface, necessary for plating, and equal to that of a high crystalline pure copper.     

Principal component analysis of dynamical features in the peroxidase-oxidase reaction

Inherent variance due to oscillations in the peroxidase-oxidase (PO) reaction was studied using principal component analysis (PCA). The substrates were oxygen and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH). Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) catalyzed the reaction. The concentration of a cofactor, methylene blue (MB), was varied, and 2,4-dichlorophenol was kept constant. Increase in the NADH influx was used to change the reaction dynamics from periodic to chaotic. The reaction space was abstracted to the most significant, mutually independent, pairs of absorption and kinetic basis vectors (principal components). Typically, two significant principal components were extracted from the periodic time series and three from the chaotic data. The PCA models accounted for 70-97% of experimental variance. The greatest fraction of the total variance was accounted for in experiments exhibiting periodic dynamics and less than 25 nM MB. More MB induced an increased contribution of NADH to the PO oscillator variance, as did increased NADH influx. A simulated absorption time series, computed from a mass-action model of the chemistry, was analyzed by PCA as well. The comparison of simulation with experiment indicates that the chemical model renders the time series for HRP oxidation forms with fidelity, but incompletely represents NADH chemistry and other salient processes underlying the observed dynamics.