Method for making rubbery composite materials by plating a plastic substrate with cobalt

摘要

A rubbery composite material comprising a substrate and a rubber composition bonded thereto is prepared by metallizing a substrate with a thin film of zinc, copper, cobalt or an alloy thereof by dry plating such as vacuum deposition, ion plating, DC magnetron sputtering, bipolar sputtering, and RF sputtering processes, and pressing a vulcanizable rubber composition to the metallized substrate under heat and pressure to effect vulcanization bonding.