PALLADIUM PLTING TO COPPER WIRE. Optimization time for palladium plating on copper wire has been carried out. Plating metal by electroplating method has been used in the medicine. One of its applications is for making palladium seed of rachytheraphy. Brachytheraphy represent one of medical procedure where radioactive source placed at the cancer tissue for a certain time or permanently. Palladium-103 as a radioisotope source deposited on copper in the seed form is entered into a titanium capsule. Optimization of plating conducted by perceiving influence pH solution and the plating time to wight of palladium deposition. From the results, optimum time of palladium plating at pH 9 of 70 ± 12 minutes and at pH 11 of 53 ± 9 minutes are obtained.
Key words: palladium, brachytherapy, electroplating.
P3TkN – BATAN Bandung
Key words: palladium, brachytherapy, electroplating.
P3TkN – BATAN Bandung
