Laboratory Electroplating
In the field of electrochemistry, numerous technologies for chemical and electrochemical surface treatment of light metals (aluminum, magnesium, titanium and their alloys), stainless steels and special materials (Dispal®, molybdenum and tungsten) have been developed in recent years.
The laboratory unit installed at INNOVENT for the surface treatment includes all related pre- and post-treatment processes in a closed chain, including a specially designed wastewater treatment plant. This enables the plasma chemical oxidation process, which is unique in Thuringia, to be raised to a higher level of quality and more complex tasks of chemical and electrochemical surface treatment to be dealt with. The necessary occupational safety and environmental protection is taken into account to the full extent.
The actual active treatment processes as well as the necessary pre- and post-treatment processes take place in the specially designed containers with the necessary supply and disposal connections. This makes it possible to carry out the following processes on a laboratory scale with a high degree of reproducibility, with the computer-supported recording of all relevant coating parameters and in compliance with existing legal requirements with regard to waste water problems:
- PCO® 12 black - highly absorbing and reflection-reducing layer for magnesium alloys
- PCO® 12 white - light-coloured, corrosion-inhibiting layer for magnesium alloys
- PCO® 13 black - highly absorbing and reflection-reducing layer for aluminum alloys
- PCO® 13 white - light, diffuse reflecting layer for aluminum alloys
- PCO® 22 black - highly absorbing and reflection-reducing black layer for titanium alloys
- PCO® 22 bio I - biocompatible coating for titanium alloys (CaP)
- PCO® 22 color - colored coatings on Ti alloys
- PCO® 35 black - highly absorbing, reflection-reducing layer on high silicon content aluminum casting alloys and conventional wrought alloys
- Electropolishing processes and electrochemical machining of metals such as copper alloys, stainless steel, magnesium alloys, tungsten and molybdenum
- Chemical metal deposition (preferably NiP) for a wide range of substrate materials (chemical copper deposition is also possible on request)
With the coating already in use, further coating properties can be derived for the following application areas:
- Optical device engineering - highly absorbing and diffusely reflecting layers for light metal alloys
- Laser technology - laser-resistant coatings of components made of light metal alloys
- Automotive industry - corrosion protective coating for magnesium alloys
- Medical technology - biocompatible and bioactive coatings for titanium and magnesium alloys
- Four-Point Measurement of Resistance
- Abrasion Resistance
- Flame Treatment Units
- CGME – Controlled Growth Mercury Electrode
- Digital Microscope
- ECMC – Electrochemical MiniCell
- EDX-Analysis
- Planar Plasma Sources
- Fluorination
- FTIR Spectroscopy
- GDP-C
- Cross-Cut Tester
- Grey Scale Measurement
- Gravimetric Titrator – Alino®
- Hardness Tester
- Hardness and Micro Hardness Testing
- Infrared Camera - Vario THERM
- Infrared Thermometer (Pyrometer)
- Jet Plasmas
- Confocal Microscope
- Laboratory Electroplating
- Lacquer Testing Device Carving Graver
- Conductivity Measurement for Non-Ferrous Metals
- Optical Microscope Leica DMi8 C
- Mastersizer
- Optical Emission Spectrometer
- pH Value Determination
- pH/Conductivity Meter
- Plasma Polymerization
- Potentiostat / Galvanostat / ZRA
- Contact Angle Measuring Instrument
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
- Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
- Roughness
- Rheometer MCR 301
- Rheometer MCR 502 TDR
- Scratch Hardness Tester
- X-Ray Fluorescence Unit Fischerscope
- X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer XPS
- Admittance
- Coating Thickness Gauge MiniTest 4100
- Coating Thickness Gauge Quint Sonic
- Sol-Gel Unit
- Spectral Ellipsometer SE850
- Sputter Technology
- Stylus Instrument / Profilometer Alpha-Step D-600
- Stylus Instrument / Profilometer PGI1200
- Thermal Evaporation
- Universal Testing Machine
- UV/VIS Spectrometer
- UV-VIS Spectroscopy
- Wear Test
- Videoextensiometer RTSS
- Xenon Arc Test
- Zeta Potential Measurement
Martin Teumer
Surface Technology
Team Leader
Electrochemistry
e-mail
Phone: +49 3641 20498 23