An Alternative Approach to Plating of Titanium and Ti Alloys Using Carbon Foam Substrate

摘要

Electroplating of titanium is commonly considered as an "impossible" process. It is known that it is almost impossible to elec-trodeposit titanium from aqueous solution because of its large negative redox potential [1]. The standard electrode potentials of titanium and zirconium are much more negative than that of hydrogen [2], which would result in reduction of gaseous hydrogen.