In an effort to produce more cost effective diamond to metal interfaces, mono-and polycrystalline diamond powders were coated with nickel alloys using electroless chemical deposition techniques. Ni-P and Ni-B coatings were deposited using an acidic and an alkaline solution respectively. These deposition procedures were preceded by a thermal surface functionalisation step and a sensitisation step using a Pd-Sn colloidal solution. Imaging by SEM and chemical analyses show uniform coverage of the coating, independent of diamond's crystalline planes, and having thicknesses consistently ,200 nm.

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