Titanium electropolishing

Amy Bilton, CERN

Titanium polishing is a process to reduce the roughness, and thereby increase the brightness, of a metal surface made of titanium or titanium alloy. CERN’s patented electropolishing method can produce polished titanium pieces with surface smoothness down to the nanometre level, with the additional benefit of lower power consumption compared to other available electrochemical methods. The technology is available for licensing.