A method of forming a coated composite article comprises treating a surface of a composite article to form a treated composite article having a plurality of voids in the surface, applying an expansive interface coating to the surface and plurality of voids of the treated composite article to form an intermediate composite article, the expansive interface coating comprising an expansive alloy, and applying a metallic coating to the intermediate composite article using one of electroless plating, electrolytic plating, and thermal spraying. Each void of at least a subset of the plurality of voids comprises an opening at the surface that is narrower than an inward dimension of the respective void.

A technique advantageous for shortening time required for electroless plating that is performed on a substrate is provided. A substrate liquid processing apparatus includes a substrate holder configured to hold the substrate; a reaction acceleration unit, configured to accelerate a plating reaction of an unused electroless plating solution, including an activation unit configured to accelerate the electroless plating solution with respect to the plating reaction and a reaction heater configured to heat the electroless plating solution; and a plating solution supply configured to supply the electroless plating solution to the substrate held by the substrate holder.

A composite thermal barrier coating (TBC) may be applied to a surface of components within an internal combustion engine. The composite TBC provides low thermal conductivity and low heat capacity insulation that is sealed against combustion gasses. The composite TBC includes three layers, bonded to one another, i.e., a first (bonding) layer, a second (insulating) layer, and a third (sealing) layer. The insulating layer is disposed between the bonding layer and the sealing layer. The bonding layer is bonded to the component and to the insulating layer. The insulating layer includes hollow microspheres that are sintered together to form insulation that provides a low effective thermal conductivity and low effective heat capacity. The sealing layer is a thin film that is configured to resist the high temperatures, present within the engine. The sealing layer is impermeable to gasses and presents a smooth surface.

A method comprising: creating, first conductive traces (12) over a substrate (10) by selective creation of metallization over the substrate (10) using selective direct structuring of a material configured for selective direct structuring; and creating second conductive areas (16A, 16B) over the substrate (10) directly in contact with at least darts of the first conductive traces (12).

A process for metallizing a three-dimensional-printed polymeric structure includes soaking the three-dimensional-printed polymeric structure in a metal salt solution; transferring the three-dimensional polymeric structure to a solution comprising a first reducing agent; soaking the three-dimensional polymeric structure in a metal plating bath, the metal plating bath comprising a coordinating agent, a palladium or platinum salt, a pH buffer component, and a second reducing agent, to form a metal plated polymeric structure. A metal plated porous structure and an apparatus for improving metallization are also disclosed.

A metallic coating includes a first metal, a second metal, phosphorous, and graphene nanoparticles. The first metal may be nickel and the second metal may be a refractory metal, such as tungsten, rhenium, molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, or mixtures thereof. The metallic coating may have, by weight, 1.0% to 40.0% of refractory metal, 1.0% to 20.0% of phosphorous, 0.01% to 5.0% of the graphene nanoplatelets, and a remainder of the nickel.

Strands of material may be intertwined using weaving techniques, knitting techniques, non-woven or entanglement techniques, or braiding techniques. Fabric that is formed from the strands of material may be used in forming a fabric-based item. The fabric based item may include electrical components. The strands may include conductive strands that form signal paths. The signal paths can carry electrical signals associated with operation of the electrical components. Each strand may have an elongated core and a coating. Strands may also include intermediate layers between the cores and coatings. The cores, intermediate layers, and coatings may be formed from polymer without conductive filler, polymer with conductive filler, and/or metal. A polymer core may be provided with recesses to help retain subsequently deposited layers such as a metal coating layer. The recesses may be grooves that extend along the longitudinal axis of the core.

A compliant attachment for an organic matrix composite component that is configured to interface with a mating component is disclosed. The compliant attachment may comprise an inner surface configured to bond to an interfacing surface of a body portion of the organic matrix component, and an outer surface configured to interface with the mating component. The compliant attachment may have a coefficient of thermal expansion intermediate between a coefficient of thermal expansion of the body portion of the organic matrix composite component and a coefficient of thermal expansion of the mating component.

The present invention relates to a nonwoven fabric or nonwoven composite material comprising the nonwoven fabric for shielding and absorbing electromagnetic waves, manufactured by using a carbon fiber plated with metal (copper and nickel) produced in an electroless or electrolysis continuous process. The nonwoven fabric of the present invention is thinner and stronger than the conventional art, and has an advantage of being capable of controlling conductivity by controlling only the content of the carbon fiber plated with metal, without need for further addition of conductive powder.

A method of manufacturing a gas turbine engine air seal comprising forming at least one MAX phase particle. The method includes coating the at least one MAX phase particle with a metallic shell. The method includes applying the at least one MAX phase metallic coated particle to a surface of a substrate of the air seal to form an abradable layer of a MAXMET composite abradable material from the at least on MAX phase metallic coated particle.