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Volume 7, Issue 6(Suppl) J Chromatogr Sep Tech
ISSN: 2157-7064 JCGST, an open access journal
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Separation Techniques 2016
September 26-28, 2016
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Separation Techniques
September 26-28, 2016 Valencia, Spain
2nd International Conference and Expo on
Fabrication of Pt metallization on silk via supercritical carbon oxide-assisted electroless plating
for wearable medical devices
Wan Ting Chiu1, 2, Yuma Tahara3, Chun Yi Chen1, 2, Tso Fu Mark Chang1, 2, Tomoko Hashimoto3, Hiromichi Kurosu3 and Masato Sone1, 2
1Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
2Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
3Nara Women’s University, Japan
As the medical technology advances, the requirements of the next-generation healthcare devices are urgently demanded.
Implantable and wearable medical devices are the latest applications over the decades. Nickel, copper and aluminum are
widely used in the aforementioned devices because of the simple process and low cost, however, adverse reactions such as
allergies and Alzheimer’s disease might take place due to the releasing of metal ion. A biocompatible material thus becomes
the most urgent demand. Platinum is considered to be the most promising material owing to its irreplaceable biocompatibility.
Moreover, silk is a common material used in clothes. The combination of Pt and silk is considered to be a promising candidate
for the medical devices. Electroless plating can put these composite materials into practice and further achieve homogeneous
metallized-surface due to the low deposition rate. Typical electroless plating consists of pretreatment to clean and roughen the
surface, catalyzation to embed the catalysts as a nucleation site into the substrate, and the plating step for the metallization.
In spite of the dominance of Pt, electroless plating of Pt remains less studied due to the hardship of controlling the deposition
of platinum by electroless technique via the traditional catalyzation. An up-to-date technique of supercritical carbon dioxide
(sc-CO2) assisted catalyzation is practiced in this study to overcome the instinct difficulty of Pt plating. With the help of the
exceptional self-diffusivity, low surface tension, and affinity to non-polar materials of sc-CO2, the catalyst can be inlaid to the
substrate while the substrate structure remains undamaged.
Biography
Wan Ting Chiu is currently a Doctoral student majoring in Materials Science and Engineering in Tokyo Institute of Technology. She has received her MS from
Chemical Engineering Department at National Tsing Hua University in 2014. She has worked as a Research Assistant in Institute of Physics, Academic Sinica.
She has a strong background in phase diagram and phase equilibria. Her current research topic is metallization of flexible texture for medical wearable devices.
Wan Ting Chiu et al., J Chromatogr Sep Tech 2016, 7:6(Suppl)