Fabrication of a Laser Welded Waterproof Coating Made of Stainless Steel Foil

The purpose of this engineering design was to fabricate a waterproof coat for a carbon fibre reinforced polymer component. Austenitic stainless steel foil with 50μm thickness was used as the raw material. Deep-drawn elements that fit the geometry of the given part were welded together to form the coat. The deep drawing tools and the welding machine were self-designed and manufactured. The cutting of the blank and then the welding technology of the deep-drawn tablecloths were carried out with a TruMark 5010 marking laser made by Trumpf

Uniform MnCo2O4.5 porous nanowires and quasi-cubes for hybrid supercapacitors with excellent electrochemical performances

In this work, uniform MnCo2O4.5 nanowires (NWs) on stainless steel foil (SSF) were prepared through a facile, cost-efficient, and eco-friendly hydrothermal method at 120 oC with a post-calcination process in...

Synthesis of flower-like nickel–iron–chromium nanostructure compound deposited stainless steel foil as an efficient binder-free electrocatalyst for water splitting

A flexible NICC/SSF electrode with a flower-like nanostructure as a bifunctional electrocatalyst exhibits favorable catalytic activity in both the HER and OER for overall water splitting.

Effects of Catalyst Pretreatment on Carbon Nanotube Synthesis from Methane Using Thin Stainless-Steel Foil as Catalyst by Chemical Vapor Deposition Method

Synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was carried out using methane as a carbon source via the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. A thin stainless-steel foil was used as catalyst for CNT growth. Our results revealed that pretreatment step of the stainless-steel foil as a catalyst plays an important role in CNT formation. In our experiments, a catalyst pretreatment temperature of 850 °C or 950 °C was found to facilitate the creation of Fe- and Cr-rich particles are active sites on the foil surface, leading to CNT formation. It is noted that the size of metallic particles after pretreatment is closely related to the diameter of the synthesized CNTs. It is interesting that a shorter catalyst pretreatment brings the growth of semiconducting typed CNTs while a longer pretreatment creates metallic CNTs. This finding might lead to a process for improving the quality of CNTs grown on steel foil as catalyst.