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1 3350 Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 147 (9) (2000) Electrodeposition of Cu-Zn Alloy from a Lewis Acidic ZnCl 2 -EMIC Molten Salt Po-Yu Chen, Mei-Chen Lin,* and I-Wen Sun**,z Department of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan The electrodeposition of copper and copper-zinc alloys was investigated on tungsten and nickel electrodes in a Lewis acidic mol % zinc chloride-1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride molten salt containing copper(i). The composition of the electrodeposited Cu-Zn alloys can be varied by deposition potential, temperature, and Cu(I) concentration of the plating bath. Analysis of the chronoamperometric transient behavior during electrodeposition suggests that pure copper electrodeposition proceeds via three-dimensional instantaneous nucleation with diffusion-controlled growth. However, as the deposition potential crosses from Cu metal into the alloy-forming range, the nucleation process changes to three-dimensional progressive nucleation with diffusion-controlled growth. Analysis of the X-ray diffraction patterns indicates that the electrodeposited Cu-Zn alloys exhibit and phases. The surface morphologies and the compositions of the electrodeposited Cu-Zn alloys were studied with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) The Electrochemical Society. S (00) All rights reserved. Manuscript submitted Januaray 28, 2000; revised manuscript received May 23, This was in part Paper 2290 presented at the Honolulu, Hawaii, Meeting of the Society, October 17-22, Zinc and its alloys are good materials for corrosion-resistant coatings. The electrodeposition of zinc or its alloys is normally performed in aqueous electrolyte solutions. 1,2 However, electrodepositions carried out in aqueous electrolyte solutions can often be complicated by problems involving hydrogen embrittlement and low current efficiency. As a result, aprotic solvents such as molten salts wherein the codeposition of hydrogen is precluded may be good alternatives to aqueous plating baths for the electrodeposition of zinc and zinc alloys. However, it is difficult to use conventional inorganic molten salts because these melts can be employed only at high temperatures with special apparatus. Mixtures of certain quaternary ammonium chloride salts, such as 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (EMIC), and metal chlorides generally form ionic liquids that exhibit melting points much lower than the conventional inorganic metal chloride molten salts. 3-5 The most well known example is the aluminum chloride-1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ionic liquid system, which is liquid at ambient temperature. 3 Chloroaluminate molten salts have proven to be useful solvents for applications such as batteries, chemical synthesis, and electrodeposition. 3 Many examples of electrodeposition of pure metals 6-10 and aluminum alloys from chloroaluminate melts can be found in the literature. Nevertheless, the deposition of aluminum-free alloys from chloroaluminates has not been reported. This may result from the fact that aluminum can be electrodeposited on metals such as copper, cobalt, nickel, etc. through underpotential deposition, and thus, the electrodeposition of alloys such as Cu-Zn and Co-Zn would be contaminated with Al if chloroaluminates are used as electrolyte. The combination of equal moles ( mol %) of zinc chloride and EMIC produces a low-temperature molten salt that is liquid at 40 C. 17 This melt can be considered as a Lewis acidic melt because there are not enough chloride ions in this melt to fully coordinate with zinc and thus, the coordinately unsaturated Zn(II) species like ZnCl 3,Zn 2 Cl 7, and (ZnCl 2 ) n, are chloride acceptors. It is found that the cathodic electrochemical window of this melt is determined by the reduction of zinc(ii) to zinc metal. This fact makes it possible to electrochemically deposit zinc metal and its alloys from this melt. Cu-Zn alloys are widely used for decorative purposes 21 as well as for promoting rubber adhesion to steel. 22 Because the commercial procedure that uses cyanide baths for electroplating Cu-Zn alloys would cause environmental problems, many efforts have concentrated on the development of procedures that use various noncyanide ** Electrochemical Society Student Member. ** Electrochemical Society Active Member. * z iwsun@mail.ncku.edu.tw baths. 23,24 However, no report about this topic in molten salts has appeared. In this article, the electrodeposition of copper metal and copper-zinc alloys from the mol % ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt containing Cu(I) is investigated. The effects of the Cu(I) concentration, deposition potential, and temperature on the electrodeposition are described. Experimental Apparatus. All electrochemical experiments were conducted inside a Vacuum Atmospheres glove box filled with dry nitrogen. The moisture and oxygen level in the box was kept lower than 1 ppm. The electrochemical experiments were accomplished with an EG&G model 273A potentiostat/galvanostat controlled with EG&G model 270 software. A three-electrode electrochemical cell was used for the electrochemical experiments. The tungsten working electrode was fabricated by sealing a piece of tungsten rod (Stream, geometric area cm 2 ) into a Pyrex tube followed by cutting off the tip of the tube to expose the tungsten surface. The electrode was polished successively with increasingly finer grades of emery paper followed by silicon carbide grit, and finally to a mirror finish with an aqueous slurry of 0.05 m alumina, rinsed with distilled water, and dried under vacuum. The nickel working electrode (geometric area cm 2 ) was purchased from Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. Bulk electrodeposits were prepared on nickel foils ( cm, Aldrich 99.99%). For voltammetry, the counter electrode was a zinc spiral (Aldrich, 99.99%) immersed in pure mol % ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt contained in a fritted glass tube. For electrodeposition experiments, the counter electrode was a narrow copper foil directly immersed in the bulk solution. The reference electrode was a Zn wire placed in a separate fritted glass tube containing pure mol % ZnCl 2 - EMIC melt. A Hitachi S-4200 field effect scanning electron microscope (SEM) with energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) working at 15 kv was used to examine the surface topography and the elemental compositions of the electrodeposits. A Shimadzu XD-D1 X-ray diffractometer was used to study the crystalline phases of the Cu-Zn alloy electrodeposits. Chemicals. The EMIC was prepared and purified according to the method described in the literature. 3 The mol % ZnCl 2 - EMIC melt was prepared in the glove box by mixing equal moles of ZnCl 2 (99.99%, Aldrich) and EMIC in a beaker followed by heating at 90 C for 2 days. The resulting melt was a colorless liquid at a temperature near 40 C. Anhydrous CuCl (99.995%) and anhydrous propylene carbonate (98%) that was used for washing the electrodeposits were purchased from Aldrich and used as received. A standard Cu-Zn foil (70:30 wt %) was received from Alfa/Aesar).

2 Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 147 (9) (2000) 3351 Results and Discussion Voltammetric results. Copper(I) can be introduced into the mol % ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt by the controlled potential coulometric anodization of a copper wire electrode at a potential of 1.3 V. Calculations based on the charge passed and the weight loss of the electrode resulting from anodization confirmed that copper(i) is the oxidation product. Alternatively, Cu(I) solutions are prepared by direct addition of anhydrous CuCl which dissolves easily into the melt. Staircase cyclic voltammograms of 200 mm Cu(I) in the mol % ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt were recorded at tungsten and nickel electrodes in a potential range between 2.0 and 0.3 V. Some typical voltammograms are shown in Fig. 1a. This figure shows that Cu(I) can be reduced to Cu metal (wave c 1 near 0.6 to 0.5 V) and that the resulting Cu deposits can be reoxidized (wave a 1 near 0.65 V). Results from X-ray diffraction (XRD) and EDS analysis of the Cu deposits that were obtained by constant potential electrolysis at potentials right after the Cu(I) reduction peak indicated that very pure copper deposits were obtained; no trace zinc or other elements were observed in the deposits. Figure 1b shows the staircase cyclic voltammograms obtained for the same Cu(I) solution as that in Fig. 1a. However, in the cyclic voltammograms shown in Fig. 1b, the cathodic potential scan was reversed at a more negative potential where the reduction of Zn(II) to Zn metal had occurred. For comparison, the background staircase cyclic voltammograms recorded for a pure mol % ZnCl 2 - EMIC melt without Cu(I) are shown in Fig. 1c. Examination of Fig. 1b and c reveals that the reduction of Zn(II) in the Cu(I) solution occurs at a potential more positive than that observed in the pure ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt, suggesting that the reduction of Zn(II) requires a smaller overpotential when copper is present on the electrode surface and the electrodeposition of Cu-Zn alloys at potentials more positive than the potential required for electrodeposition of pure zinc is possible. In addition, the peak current of the Zn oxidation wave, a 2, observed in Fig. 1b is significantly smaller than that observed in Fig. 1c, because most of the Zn had alloyed with Cu and only the nonalloyed Zn is oxidized at wave a 2. Whereas the stripping wave a 1 shown in Fig. 1b occurs at nearly the same potential as the wave a 1 observed in Fig. 1a for the oxidation of pure Cu deposits, it was found that the anodic stripping of a standard Cu-Zn alloy foil (70:30 wt %) in the pure ZnCl-EMIC melt occurred also at the potential identical to wave a 1. Furthermore, the charge consumed by wave a 1 is significantly larger than that by wave a 1. These results suggest that wave a 1 might due to the anodic stripping of pure Cu and Cu-Zn alloy. However, because the reduction of Cu continues after the potential is swept past the peak current of wave c 1 into the Zn electrodeposition region (wave c 2 in Fig. 1b), the extra charge consumed by this Cu deposition process must be included in any comparison between the charges for wave a 1 and a 1 before the difference in these charges can be ascribed to alloy formation. For this purpose, the Cu reduction current in the Zn electrodeposition region was estimated by assuming that the current past the peak potential of wave c 1 follows Cottrell behavior. The extra charge was then obtained by integrating this estimated current. The total of this extra charge and the charge under wave c 1 gave the total charge consumed by the Cu deposition during the cathodic scan, and this total charge would be the maximum charge that should be obtained for the anodic stripping of the Cu deposits. Analysis of several typical cyclic voltammograms showed that the charge consumed by wave a 1 is indeed more than the total charge expected for the stripping of the Cu deposits. Taken together, the results suggest that wave a 1 in Fig. 1b is due to the anodic stripping of the Cu-Zn alloys and the nonalloyed Cu that were formed during the cathodic scan. This is further supported by the fact that integration of the cathodic (waves c 1 and c 2 ) and anodic (waves a 1 and a 2 ) scan, respectively, of the cyclic voltammograms in Fig. 1b gives a coulombic cyclic efficiency of 99%. The effect of the Cu(I) concentration of the plating bath on the deposition process is illustrated by the cyclic voltammograms shown in Fig. 2. It can be seen from this figure that waves c 1, c 2, and a 1 increase with increasing Cu(I) concentration. However, wave a 2 decreases with increasing Cu(I) concentration. Increasing the Cu(I) concentration results in more Cu metal being deposited at wave c 1, and thus leads to a higher electrode surface area which in turn facilitates the electrodeposition of Zn. The observed increase in wave a 1 and decrease in wave a 2 indicate that the amounts of Cu-Zn alloy are increased, whereas the amounts of nonalloyed Zn metal are decreased by increasing the Cu(I) concentration. The temperature effect on the electrodeposition process is shown in Fig. 3. In general, raising the temperature reduces the viscosity of Figure 1. Staircase cyclic voltammograms for the mol % ZnCl 2 - EMIC melt on tungsten and nickel electrodes at 80 C, (a) and (b) with 200 mm Cu(I), (c) without Cu(I). Scan rate 50 mv/s. Figure 2. Staircase cyclic voltammograms for the mol % ZnCl 2 - EMIC melt containing ( ) 200, ( ) 250, and ( ) 300 mm Cu(I) on tungsten and nickel electrodes at 80 C. Scan rate 50 mv/s.

3 3352 Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 147 (9) (2000) the melt and thus, increases the mass transport of Cu(I) and Zn(II). Consequently, the voltammetric currents are increased by increasing the temperature. Nucleation studies of Cu metal and Cu-Zn alloy electrodeposition. Chronoamperometry experiments were carried out in order to investigate the Cu metal and Cu-Zn alloy nucleation/growth process in more detail. These experiments were performed at a nickel disk working electrode in a mol % ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt containing 200 mm Cu(I). For each experiment, the working electrode potential was stepped from an initial value where no reduction of Cu or Zn would take place to potentials sufficiently negative to initiate the nucleation/growth process after a short induction time, t o. The experimental chronoamperometric current-time transients exhibit the classic shape for a nucleation process, i.e., after the decay of a sharp electrode double-layer charging current, the current increases due to the nucleation and growth of the nuclei. This rising current eventually reaches a current maximum, i m, as the discrete diffusion zones of each of the growing crystallites begin to overlap at time t m. The experimental current-time transients were fit to the well-known threedimensional (3D) nucleation/growth, as described in the literature. 25,26 In these models, the nucleation process is fundamentally classified as instantaneous or progressive. To determine the nucleation behavior, the experimental data is first normalized to i/i m and t/t m. Then, the normalized experimental data are plotted as (i/i m ) 2 vs. t/t m and the resulting plots are compared to the theoretical (i/i m ) 2 vs. t/t m curves derived for instantaneous and progressive nucleation. Before normalization and plotting of the experimental data, the experimental time was corrected for the induction time, t o, by redefining the time axis as t t t o and t m t m t o. Figure 4 shows the representative experimental (i/i m ) 2 vs. t /t m plots for Cu metal electrodeposition overlaid with the theoretical curves. Clearly, the deposition of Cu metal on the nickel electrode fits well to the model for 3D-instantaneous nucleation with diffusion-controlled growth. Figure 3. Staircase cyclic voltammograms for the mol % ZnCl 2 - EMIC melt containing 300 mm Cu(I) on tungsten and nickel electrodes at ( ) 50, ( ) 80, and ( ) 100 C. Scan rate 50 mv/s. Figure 4. Comparison of the dimensionless experimental current-time transients derived from the chronoamperometric experiments of copper deposition with the theoretical curves for the 3D-instantaneous and 3D-progressive nucleation. Values for the applied potential (V) are given above each plot. Nucleation of Cu-Zn alloy electrodeposition was also studied with chronoamperometry experiments in which the working electrode potential was stepped to a value where the codeposition of Cu- Zn would take place. A series of plots of (i/i m ) 2 vs. t /t m that were constructed from these chronoamperometric data are displayed in Fig. 5. This figure shows that as the deposition potential crosses from Cu metal into the alloy-forming range, the nucleation process shifts from a 3D-instantaneous to a 3D-progressive model. A previous study 17 showed that similar to the electrodeposition of Cu metal, the electrodeposition of Zn metal in the mol % ZnCl 2 - EMIC melt proceeds via 3D-instantaneous nucleation/growth. Thus, the results shown in Fig. 5 indicate that the nucleation process for the electrodeposition of Cu-Zn alloy is very different from that for the electrodeposition of pure Zn or Cu. Because the progressive nucleation model refers to the case in which the nucleation rate is relatively slower with respect to the instantaneous nucleation model, the difference between Fig. 4 and 5 may indicate that in the alloy-forming potential range, the Cu(I) and Zn(II) ions compete for the nucleation site and result in a reduced nucleation rate. Preparation and characterization of Cu-Zn electrodeposits. Cu-Zn alloy electrodeposits were prepared at 50, 80, and 100 C, respectively, on thin nickel foils ( cm) at potentials ranging from 0.11 to 0.01 V from mol % ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt solutions containing 200, 250, and 300 mm Cu(I), respectively. For all the deposition experiments, the same charge density was used to ensure that the nominal thickness of these deposits would be relatively constant. Following each deposition experiment, the nickel foil electrode was rinsed with dry propylene carbonate, ethanol, and deionized water in succession to remove residual melt. The compositions of these deposits were analyzed by EDS. The composition results of these deposits expressed as a function of deposition potential and temperature are displayed in Fig. 6. At each temperature, the atomic ratios of Cu in the Cu-Zn deposits decrease as the deposition potential becomes more negative. This is not surprising because at these potentials the reduction of Cu is mass-transport limited and further increase of the deposition overpotential would only increase the amount of Zn being deposited. Figure 6 also shows that the Cu atomic ratios in the deposits increase as the temperature increases.

4 Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 147 (9) (2000) 3353 Figure 5. Comparison of the dimensionless experimental current-time transients derived from the chronoamperometric experiments of copper-zinc alloy deposition with the theoretical curves for the 3D-instantaneous and 3Dprogressive nucleation. Values for the applied potential (V) are given above each plot. Because at the potentials where these deposits are made, the reduction of Cu is mass-transport controlled whereas the reduction of Zn is still charge-transfer controlled, an increase in the temperature would enhance the deposition rate of Cu by increasing the masstransport rate of Cu(I). Figure 7 illustrates the effect of the Cu(I) concentration of the plating bath on the compositions of the Cu-Zn deposits. Clearly, plating baths containing higher Cu(I) concentration results in deposits with higher Cu atomic ratios. These EDS results are consistent with the cyclic voltammetric results. The color of the electrodeposits changes from reddish to yellow and grayish brown as the Cu content in the deposits decreases from 80 to 70 and 60 %, respectively. The surface morphology of electrodeposits prepared on nickel foils at four different deposition potentials from a 250 mm Cu(I) solution is shown in Fig. 8. Pure Cu deposits prepared at 0.6 V have a polygonal appearance (Fig. 8a), revealing their crystallographic nature, but adhere poorly to the substrate. When the deposition potential is made more negative to 0.11 and 0.03 V, and the Cu content in the deposits is lowered to ca. 80 and 70%, respectively, the deposits (Fig. 8b and c) still retain their polygonal shape, but the grain size of the Cu-Zn deposits is smaller than the pure Cu deposits because the nuclear density is higher. In contrast to pure Cu deposits, the Cu-Zn deposits adhere fairly well to the substrates. The surface morphology changes dramatically when the deposition potential is made even more negative to 0.01 V at which the Cu content in the deposits is lowered to 50%. The deposits obtained at this potential become irregular in shape and are covered by small needles. Similar needle deposits have previously been observed for the pure Zn electrodeposits obtained from the mol % ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt. 17 The XRD patterns from Cu-Zn electrodeposits that were prepared on nickel substrate at four different deposition potentials are shown in Fig. 9. Also shown in Fig. 9 are the XRD patterns from the nickel substrate, pure copper electrodeposit, and pure zinc electrodeposit. It is known that electrodeposited copper-rich Cu-Zn alloys exhibit two phases: the and phases. 27 The phase is a solid solution that has an equilibrium solubility limit of about 35% Zn in Cu with a face-centered cubic (fcc) structure. The phase is an intermediate phase that has a composition corresponding to Cu-Zn with a body-centered cubic (bcc) structure. Figure 9 shows that XRD patterns from the Cu-Zn electrodeposits are different from those of pure Zn and Cu, indicating crystalline alloys are indeed formed in these Cu-Zn electrodeposits. Furthermore, the phase diffraction lines increase in intensity as the deposition potential becomes more nega- Figure 6. EDS analysis of Cu-Zn alloys electrodeposited on nickel foils in mol % ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt containing 200, 250, and 300 mm Cu(I), respectively. ( ) 50, ( ) 80, and ( ) 100 C.

5 3354 Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 147 (9) (2000) Figure 7. EDS analysis of Cu-Zn alloys electrodeposited on nickel foils in ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt containing ( ) 200, ( ) 250, and ( ) 300 mm Cu(I). tive; in other words, the phase increases as the Cu content in the electrodeposited Cu-Zn alloy decreases. Conclusion The electroreduction of copper(i) in the Lewis acidic mol % zinc chloride-1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride melt at tungsten and nickel electrodes leads to pure copper or copperzinc depending on the deposition potential. The copper content in the Cu-Zn alloys increases as the Cu(I) concentration in the plating bath and/or the deposition temperature increases and decreases as the deposition overpotential increases. Chronoamperometric behavior indicates that the electrodeposition of pure copper proceeds via 3-D instantaneous nucleation and diffusion-limited growth, whereas the electrodeposition of copper-zinc alloys proceeds via 3-D progressive nucleation and growth. Analysis of XRD patterns reveals that the copper-zinc alloy exhibits two phases, and phases, with phase predominating in copper-zinc alloys obtained at more negative deposition potentials. Acknowledgment This research was supported by the National Science Council of the Republic of China, Taiwan, under grant no. NSC M The National Cheng Kung University assisted in meeting the publication costs of this article. References 1. D. Pletcher, Industrial Electrochemistry, p. 187, Chapman and Hall, London (1984). 2. R. W. Mackey, in Modern Electroplating, F. A. Lowenheim, Editor, p. 418, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York (1974). 3. (a) J. S. Wilkes, J. A. Levisky, R. A. Wilson, and C. L. Hussey, Inorg. Chem., 21, 1263 (1982); (b) C. L. Hussey, in Chemistry of Nonaqueous Solvents: Current Progress, G. Mamantov and A. I. Popov, Editors, p. 227, VCH, New York (1994). 4. S. P. Wicelinski, R. J. Gale, and J. S. Wilkes, J. Electrochem. Soc., 134, 262 (1987). 5. M. K. Carpenter and M. W. Verbrugge, J. Mater. Res., 9, 2584 (1994). 6. J. Robinson and R. A. Osteryoung, J. Electrochem. Soc., 127, 122 (1980). 7. X.-H. Xu and C. L. Hussey, J. Electrochem. Soc., 140, 618 (1993). 8. X.-H. Xu and C. L. Hussey, J. Electrochem. Soc., 140, 1226 (1993). 9. W. R. Pitner and C. L. Hussey, J. Electrochem. Soc., 144, 3095 (1997). 10. E. G.-S. Jeng and I-W. Sun, J. Electrochem. Soc., 145, 1196 (1998). Figure 8. SEM micrographs of copper and Cu-Zn alloy deposited from mol % ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt containing 200 mm Cu(I) at 80 C. The electrodeposition potentials are (a) 0.6, (b) 0.11, (c) 0.03, and (d) 0.01 V. Figure 9. XRD patterns (Cu K ) of Ni substrate and electrodeposits from 200 mm Cu(I) in mol % ZnCl 2 -EMIC melt at 80 C. The electrodeposition potentials are shown in the plot.

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