The nickel foil is made produced via a continuous electrodeposition process, producing a foil of consistent quality in greater widths and lower thicknesses than is available by conventional metal rolling, both in the hard (“as-electroformed”) and annealed conditions. Electroformed nickel foil has very high chemical purity, excellent and consistent surface finish, and good etching characteristics. Its applications include battery mesh, heating elements, bursting discs, gaskets, lead frames and printed resistor/circuit boards. Other applications utilize the inherent magnetic properties of nickel. Available thicknesses (2019) are 8-100 microns (0.00031-0.004 in). Data provided by the manufacturer, Special Metals. |