Electroplating and Electrometallurgy Division is one of the fascinating divisions of CSIR - CECRI undertaking fundamental to applied R&D activities on Electroplating, Electrometallurgy and Vacuum Coatings. The division plays a momentous role in the development of technologies and processes in surface engineering and metallurgical industries. Our capabilities include,
Ø Electroplating of metals, alloys, multilayers and composites using aqueous and non-aqueous electrolytes. Surface finishing such as electropolishing, electroforming and anodizing & colouring.
Ø Coatings of transparent conducting oxides, transition metal chalcogenides and metal/alloy nitrides for electrochromic, photoelectrochemical, thermal barrier, biomedical implant and anti-microbial applications.
Ø Electropyrometallurgy of light metals and rare earths using Molten Salt Electrolysis and Reduction Diffusion Technique for Strategic applications & Electrohydrometallurgy of ferrous, non-ferrous and rare earth metals from low grade Indian Ores and Industrial Wastes towards Import Substitution.
R&D activities:
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Electroplating
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Ø Electroplating of Trivalent Hard Chrome
Ø Electroplating of Copper, Nickel, Zinc and its alloys & composites
Ø Electroplating of precious metals like Gold and Silver
Ø Electroplating of Aluminium, Tantalum, and Yttrium using ionic liquids
Ø Understanding interfacial processes during electrodeposition
Ø Electropolishing of Stainless Steel
Ø Anodizing of Aluminium
Ø Brush Plating of Metals and Alloys
Ø Pulse and Pulse Reverse Plating of Metals and Alloys
Ø Electroless Plating
Ø Cyanide-free Brass electroplating
Ø Electroforming
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Coatings
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Ø Physical Vapor Deposition
Ø Thermal Evaporation
Ø Electron Beam Evaporation
Ø DC/RF Magnetron Sputtering
Ø Ionic Assisted Confocal DC Magnetron Sputtering
Ø Pulsed Laser Deposition
Ø Spray Coatings
Ø Thermal Barrier Coatings
Ø Spin Coatings
Ø Sol-Gel Coatings
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Electrometallurgy
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Ø Molten Salt Electrowinning of Na, Li, Ca and Mg
Ø Molten Salt Electrowinning of La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Pr, Eu, NdFe and SmCo5
Ø Molten Salt Preparation of Rare Earth and Transition Metal borides, Oxides, CNT, Graphene and Thermoelectric materials
Ø Electro-recovery of lead from ore and lead acid battery scrap
Ø g - MnO2 from low grade ores and industrial effluents
Ø Zn/ZnO from primary and secondary resources
Ø Recovery of platinum group metals from spent catalysts
Ø Role of impurities in electrowinning /electrorefining processes
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Clients