Materials (Part 1)
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Materials :-
Two fabric types that included cotton and polyester were chosen for this study.
A typical chemical plating solution used for the experiments consisted of silver nitrate, reducing agent and complex agents including alkali, buffer and stabilizer to control and promote the autocatalytic process. The activators used, namely stannous chloride, hydrochloric acid, silver nitrate, sodium hydroxide, ammonium solution and glucose, were of analytical reagent grade.
