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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1998
Harry Sutton Anderson, II, Newark, DE (US);
Metton America, Inc., Abingdon, VA (US);
Abstract
The process of metal plating an object formed out of a cyclic olefin polymer is improved by first immersing the object in an organic solvent, such as an aromatic hydrocarbon or a halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbon, that serves to swell the object at its surface, for example sufficiently to increase its weight by about 0.1 to 70%. In this way objects molded out of, for example, poly(dicyclopentadiene) can be pre-etched by being immersed in xylene for 5 minutes at room temperature, and then plated by the electroless deposition of nickel on the surface of the etched part. The pre-etching facilitates adhesion of the plating metal to the surface.
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