摘要 |
The present invention provides a method for metal plating which makes it possible to perform electroless plating in a favorable manner even on materials difficult to apply electroless plating, and a pretreatment agent for this method. An article to be plated is treated with a pretreatment agent which has been prepared by mixing a solution of a silane coupling agent having a metal-capturing functional group in its molecule and a solution containing a metal that shows catalytic activity in the deposition of a plating metal such as copper, nickel or the like from an electroless plating solution onto the surface of an article to be plated so that the above-mentioned metal is captured by the above-mentioned silane coupling agent, and then adding a reducing agent. Afterward, electroless plating is performed so that a metal thin film is formed on the surface of the article pretreated above. Then, desired metal plating can be performed. |