The Use of Electrolysis for the Deposition of Copper on the Surface of TiO2 Ceramics

Materials of the XIX-th International Baltic Conference "Engineering & BALTTRIB 2010" 2010
Kristaps Rubenis, Līga Mežmale, Jānis Ločs, Agnese Pavlova, Līga Bērziņa-Cimdiņa

Non-stoichiometric titanium dioxide ceramics with formula TiO2-x (where x < 2) is considered to be a perspective material. There has been an interest in ceramic electrodes obtained from non-stoichiometric titania (TiO2-x) for water treatment applications. Titanium oxide ceramics rods were prepared using extrusion process and subsequent thermal treatment in two stages – in air atmosphere at 850 - 1450 °C and then in vacuum at temperatures 1250 - 1300 °C. To create the electrode, a wire must be attached to TiO2-x ceramic rod. For this reason the copper layer was deposited by electrolysis on one end of TiO2-x rod surface.

Keywords
TiO2 ceramics, copper, electrolysis

Rubenis, K., Mežmale, L., Ločs, J., Pavlova, A., Bērziņa-Cimdiņa, L. The Use of Electrolysis for the Deposition of Copper on the Surface of TiO2 Ceramics. In: Materials of the XIX-th International Baltic Conference "Engineering & BALTTRIB 2010", Latvia, Rīga, 28-29 October, 2010. Rīga: Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Riga Tehnical University, 2010, pp.37-37.

Publication language
English (en)