Studies on the preparation and properties of conductive polymers. XI. Metallized polymer films by plating out

Metallized films were prepared from the plating-out method. Various metal p owders with lower reduction potential were dispersed in poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) aqueous solution dried to form a film, then treated with metal salt solutions having metal ions in the metal salt with higher reduction potenti al. Metallized PVA films exhibited low surface resistivity around 10(0)-10( 1) Omega/cm(2) when using the plating-out method. The surfaces of these fil ms were shown to be metallized by means of X-ray analysis. Scanning electro n microscopy (SEM) was also studied. (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.