“…Well adhered metallic coatings can be produced by electrodeposition once the plating parameters, the substrate treatments and the electrolytic bath composition are optimized [4][5][6]. In previous papers the authors demonstrated that it is possible to obtain well adhered and uniformly distributed Ni clusters, on PAN-based fibres and carbon paper [1,2]. The good adhesion of electrodeposited Ni clusters was demonstrated by performing several experiments, consisting in immersion, magnetic stirring, centrifugation and ultrasonication into different liquids (such as deionized water, ethanol, acetone, n-butanol).…”