Progress of electroless amorphous and nanoalloy deposition: a review – Part 1

The second part of this review of developments over the life span of electroless plating continues with the period of rapid development (1980–99), describing the upsurge of large scale application, research into ternary and multi-component alloys and composites, the rapid development in China – now the world’s biggest consumer of electroless Ni – and the development of electroless deposition of Fe–B based alloys. Since the new millennium began many fundamental mechanistic studies have been conducted and the development of nano-electroless plating has occurred.