Surface treatment method for improving corrosion resistance of electrolytic copper foil
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of electrolytic copper foil surface treatment, and particularly relates to a surface treatment method for improving the corrosion resistance of an electrolytic copper foil.
Background
The electrolytic copper foil is one of basic materials in the electronic industry, has wide application in the electronic industry and plays an important role in the development of the whole electronic industry. The electrolytic copper foil is a metal copper deposition layer obtained by an electrodeposition technology under the action of a certain current density by using a proper electrolyte solution, and is widely used for producing copper clad laminates (CCLs for short) and printed circuit boards (PCBs for short).
The quality of the electrolytic copper foil is not only related to the green foil substrate but also to the surface treatment technique of the copper foil [ 1 ]. After the electrolytic copper foil is treated by a proper surface treatment process, the quality and the performance of the product can be effectively improved, so that the electrolytic copper foil has excellent heat resistance, corrosion resistance and higher peel strength, and meets higher requirements of industrial production.
In order to meet the functional requirements of miniaturization and light weight of electronic equipment, thin copper foils or ultrathin copper foils with the thickness of less than 12 microns are increasingly applied, and the traditional copper foil surface treatment technology cannot meet the requirements of better elongation, flatness, high temperature resistance, oxidation resistance and the like for ensuring the copper foil to have high performance. Since copper foil is subject to oxidation, corrosion, etc. during storage, transportation, etc., it is often necessary to surface-treat the copper foil to prevent oxidation of the copper foil. At present, the traditional oxidation-resistant treatment method for the surface of the copper foil is a passivation method, namely chemical passivation in chromic acid solution or electrolytic passivation under chromate, and the main purpose of the oxidation-resistant treatment method is to form a chromized layer on the surface of the copper foil to isolate the copper foil from air so as to achieve the effects of rust prevention, spot prevention and discoloration prevention. However, with respect to the technical level of the currently used surface treatment additives and treatment processes, the treated copper foil still cannot fully meet the actual production requirements in terms of oxidation resistance and corrosion resistance.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention mainly aims to provide a surface treatment method for improving the corrosion resistance of an electrolytic copper foil, and the corrosion resistance and the oxidation resistance of the copper foil are obviously improved after the surface treatment method.
The above object of the present invention is achieved by the following technical solution, a surface treatment method for improving corrosion resistance of an electrolytic copper foil, comprising the steps of:
(1) pretreatment of raw foil: removing oil from a copper foil raw foil by using absolute ethyl alcohol according to a conventional method, washing with water, removing an oxide film by using sulfuric acid, washing with water again, roughening, and washing with water again.
(2) Solidifying the plating solution: and (3) carrying out a curing plating solution on the pretreated copper foil, wherein the curing solution comprises zinc sulfate, nickel sulfate, an additive and a complexing agent.
Further, the curing liquid also comprises catalyst modified titanium sulfate.
Further, the additives comprise sodium citrate, tartaric acid, N', N-dimethylformamide, boric acid and ammonium chloride.
Further, the complexing agent is hydroxyethylidene diphosphonic acid potassium salt.
Further, the curing liquid comprises the following components: 80-110 g/L of zinc sulfate, 60-90 g/L of nickel sulfate, 20-50 g/L of sodium hypophosphite, 5-10 g/L of modified titanium sulfate, 3-9 g/L of sodium citrate, 2-5 g/L of tartaric acid, 10-15 g/L of N', N-dimethylformamide, 15 m L g/L of boric acid, 2-6 g/L of ammonium chloride and 2-10 g/L of hydroxyethylidene diphosphonic acid potassium salt.
The preparation method of the modified titanium sulfate comprises the following steps: weighing a certain amount of Ti (SO4)2, dissolving in deionized water, dissolving a certain amount of La2O3 in the deionized water, drying at 100 ℃, roasting the solid in a muffle furnace at 400-500 ℃ for 4 hours, cooling, grinding and storing in a dry environment for later use.
The curing process condition is that the cathode current density is 2-3A/dm2The temperature is normal temperature, the anode is a lead plate, and the plating time is 16-20 s.
(3) Passivating, wherein the passivation solution is a commercial product, and is passivated under the conditions of pH value of 8.0-11.0 and temperature of 40-50 ℃, and the passivation treatment is preferably carried out for 5 s;
(4) and (3) spraying a coupling agent, namely spraying and wetting the surface of the electrolytic copper foil by adopting a KBE-903 silane coupling agent.
The titanium sulfate is doped with La2O3 and then is roasted at high temperature to prepare rare earth modified solid acid, rare earth elements are introduced into the solid acid, and the modified solid acid not only has the advantages of better acid catalytic activity, less rare earth content, quick settlement after reaction, easy separation and recovery, repeated use, easy regeneration and the like, but also greatly simplifies the post-treatment process of the reaction, and the product is colorless, clear and transparent. The rare earth modified solid acid is an environment-friendly catalyst.
To further verify the effect of modified titanium sulfate as a curing solution additive in improving the corrosion resistance of the electrolytic copper foil, the company made the following tests:
for the test, a 12 μm high-purity electrolytic copper foil manufactured by this company was used, and a copper foil was cut into two pieces in a size of 5 cm × 10cm, and surface-treated with a test curing liquid and a control curing liquid, respectively, to study the corrosion resistance of the matte side of the copper foil.
Test groups: the curing liquid comprises 100 g/L of zinc sulfate, 80 g/L of nickel sulfate, 35 g/L of sodium hypophosphite, 8 g/L of modified titanium sulfate, 6g/L of sodium citrate, 3 g/L of tartaric acid, 12 m L/L of N', N-dimethylformamide, 15 g/L of boric acid, 4 g/L of ammonium chloride and 6g/L of hydroxyethylidene diphosphonic acid potassium salt.
Control group: the other components of the curing liquid are completely in accordance with the test groups, except that the modified titanium sulfate, which is one of the additives, is replaced by titanium sulfate.
At a cathode current density of 3A/dm2The temperature is normal temperature, the anode is a lead plate, and the plating time is 20 s.
And (3) test results: the copper foils subjected to surface treatment of the test group and the control group are simultaneously placed in a constant temperature and humidity box, and corrosion performance tests are carried out under the conditions of 100 ℃ and 80% humidity, and the results show that the copper foils of the test group do not show oxidation discoloration phenomenon for 48 hours; the control group was clearly subject to oxidative discoloration. Meanwhile, an Instron 3343 type universal testing machine is adopted to detect the anti-peeling strength of the electrolytic copper foil, the test group has the result of 1.18N/mm, the control group has the result of 1.06N/mm, and the test group shows better anti-peeling strength performance.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the surface treatment of electrolytic copper foil by using titanium sulfate modified as an additive of a curing solution is not reported, and particularly, the corrosion resistance of the copper foil is improved by using rare earth modified solid acid prepared by using La2O3 modified titanium sulfate and roasting at high temperature. Compared with the prior art, the electrolytic copper foil surface treatment of the invention adopts the modified titanium sulfate as the additive, can enhance the deep plating capability of the electrolytic copper foil, and can plate a uniform fine alloy particle coarsening layer on both the profile peak height and the profile valley, so that the produced very-low profile electrolytic copper foil achieves the microcrystal effect, the peeling strength of the copper foil on the substrate is enhanced, the plating layer is crystallized and compact, and the corrosion resistance of the plating layer is enhanced. Meanwhile, the process does not contain harmful elements such As Pb, As and the like, and has good environmental protection characteristic. Tests show that the 12-micron copper foil product prepared by the process disclosed by the invention has the performances of oxidation resistance, corrosion resistance, peeling strength resistance and the like which meet the application requirements, and shows good prospects and application values.
Detailed Description
The first embodiment is as follows: a surface treatment method for improving the corrosion resistance of an electrolytic copper foil comprises the following steps:
(1) pretreatment of raw foil: removing oil from a copper foil raw foil by using absolute ethyl alcohol according to a conventional method, washing with water, removing an oxide film by using sulfuric acid, washing with water again, roughening, and washing with water again.
(2) Solidifying the plating solution: carrying out curing plating solution on the pretreated copper foil, wherein the curing solution comprises the following components: 100 g/L of zinc sulfate, 80 g/L of nickel sulfate, 35 g/L of sodium hypophosphite, 8 g/L of modified titanium sulfate, 6g/L of sodium citrate, 3 g/L of tartaric acid, 12 m L/L of N', N-dimethylformamide, 15 g/L of boric acid, 4 g/L of ammonium chloride and 6g/L of hydroxyethylidene diphosphonic acid potassium salt.
The curing process condition is that the cathode current density is 2A/dm2The temperature is normal temperature, the anode is a lead plate, and the plating time is 16 s.
(3) Passivating, wherein the passivation solution is a commercial product, and is passivated under the conditions of pH value of 8.0-11.0 and 45 ℃, and the passivation treatment is preferably carried out for 5 s;
(4) and (3) spraying a coupling agent, namely spraying and wetting the surface of the electrolytic copper foil by adopting a KBE-903 silane coupling agent.
The electrolytic copper foil obtained by the treatment method is placed in a constant temperature and humidity box, and does not show oxidation discoloration phenomenon within 48 hours under the conditions of 70 ℃ and 80% of humidity.
Example two: a surface treatment method for improving the corrosion resistance of an electrolytic copper foil comprises the following steps:
(1) pretreatment of raw foil: removing oil from a copper foil raw foil by using absolute ethyl alcohol according to a conventional method, washing with water, removing an oxide film by using sulfuric acid, washing with water again, roughening, and washing with water again.
(2) Solidifying the plating solution: carrying out curing plating solution on the pretreated copper foil, wherein the curing solution comprises the following components: 80 g/L of zinc sulfate, 60 g/L of nickel sulfate, 20g/L of sodium hypophosphite, 10g/L of modified titanium sulfate, 9g/L of sodium citrate, 2g/L of tartaric acid, 10 m L/L of N', N-dimethylformamide, 20g/L of boric acid, 2g/L of ammonium chloride and 10g/L of hydroxyethylidene diphosphonic acid potassium salt.
The curing process condition is that the cathode current density is 3A/dm2At normal temperature, the anodeIs a lead plate, wherein the plating time is 20 s.
(3) Passivating, wherein the passivation solution is a commercial product, and is passivated under the conditions of pH value of 8.0-11.0 and 40 ℃, and the passivation treatment is preferably carried out for 5 s;
(4) and (3) spraying a coupling agent, namely spraying and wetting the surface of the electrolytic copper foil by adopting a KBE-903 silane coupling agent.
The electrolytic copper foil obtained by the treatment method is placed in a constant temperature and humidity box, and does not show oxidation discoloration phenomenon within 48 hours under the conditions of 120 ℃ and 80% humidity.
Example three: a surface treatment method for improving the corrosion resistance of an electrolytic copper foil comprises the following steps:
(1) pretreatment of raw foil: removing oil from a copper foil raw foil by using absolute ethyl alcohol according to a conventional method, washing with water, removing an oxide film by using sulfuric acid, washing with water again, roughening, and washing with water again.
(2) Solidifying the plating solution: carrying out curing plating solution on the pretreated copper foil, wherein the curing solution comprises the following components: 110g/L of zinc sulfate, 90g/L of nickel sulfate, 50g/L of sodium hypophosphite, 5 g/L of modified titanium sulfate, 3 g/L of sodium citrate, 5 g/L of tartaric acid, 15 m L/L of N', N-dimethylformamide, 10g/L of boric acid, 6g/L of ammonium chloride and 2g/L of hydroxyethylidene diphosphonic acid potassium salt.
The curing process condition is that the cathode current density is 3A/dm2The temperature is normal temperature, the anode is a lead plate, and the plating time is 20 s.
(3) Passivating, wherein the passivation solution is a commercial product, and is passivated under the conditions of pH value of 8.0-11.0 and 40 ℃, and the passivation treatment is preferably carried out for 5 s;
(4) and (3) spraying a coupling agent, namely spraying and wetting the surface of the electrolytic copper foil by adopting a KBE-903 silane coupling agent.
The electrolytic copper foil obtained by the treatment method has the following performance indexes through tests:
the electrolytic copper foil obtained by the treatment method is placed in a constant temperature and humidity box, and does not show oxidation discoloration phenomenon within 48 hours under the conditions of 150 ℃ and 80% of humidity.