An Experimental Approach for Optimizing Coating Parameters of Electroless Ni-P-Cu Coating Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

Table 3

Electroless bath constituents.

Parameters	Values
Nickel sulphate (g/L)	25–35
Sodium hypophosphite (g/L)	10–20
Sodium citrate (g/L)	15
Copper sulphate (g/L)	0.3–0.7
pH	9.5
Temperature	85°C
Duration of coating	2 hrs
Bath volume (mL)	200