“…One strategy to reduce the thickness and cost is to deposit a thin Pd or Pd-alloy film on the surface of porous substrate. This approach has been practiced extensively, where thin films of Pd or Pd-alloys were deposited on the porous substrate by various techniques such as electroless plating [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20], sputtering [11,21,22,23,24,25,26], and chemical vapour deposition [27,28,29]. Non-metallic and metallic porous substrates such as ceramics [17,22,27,30,31], glass [21], and Porous Stainless Steel (PSS) [13,25,32,33,34,35] are widely employed.…”