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Nickel Foil
Available Configurations
Properties common to all products in this list
| Purity | Thickness | Length | Width | Temper Options | Surface Finish Options | Support Options |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99% to 99.999% | 0.00025mm to 6.35mm | 10mm to 1016mm | 10mm to 450mm | As Rolled, Annealed, Half Hard, Hard | Mirror polished on both sides | Temporary acrylic |
Need custom configurations? Please contact our Technical Solutions team.
Key Features
Nickel foil possesses a combination of material characteristics that make it particularly well suited for energy systems, electronics, aerospace, sensing, and chemical applications:
Exceptional Corrosion Resistance
Nickel foil forms a stable oxide layer that protects it from chemical attack, offering excellent resistance to acids, alkalis, and moisture. This makes it ideal for use in batteries, fuel cells, chemical reactors, and marine environments where long-term durability is critical.
High Melting Point (1,455 °C)
With a high melting point and strong thermal stability, nickel foil maintains structural integrity under extreme heat. It is widely used in high-temperature applications such as heating elements, aerospace components, and thermal shielding.
Low Electrical Resistivity (6.93 μΩ·cm)
Nickel foil conducts electricity efficiently, making it a preferred material for battery current collectors, printed circuit boards, and EMI shielding. Its low resistivity supports stable energy transfer and performance in electronic and power systems.
Ferromagnetic Behaviour
Nickel's ferromagnetic nature enables its use in magnetic sensors, actuators, and shielding applications. This property is especially valuable in aerospace, security tags, and precision instrumentation.
High Mechanical Strength and Ductility
Despite its thinness, nickel foil offers excellent tensile strength and can be formed into complex geometries without cracking. This makes it suitable for microfabrication, flexible electronics, and high-reliability components.
Compatibility with Thin-Film and Nanomaterial Technologies
Nickel foil serves as a substrate for advanced coatings and nanomaterials, including graphene films, piezoelectric layers, and nickel oxide nanowires. Its smooth surface and thermal resilience make it ideal for cutting-edge energy storage and sensor applications.
Industrial Applications
High-purity nickel foil is used across advanced industries for its corrosion resistance, thermal stability, electrical conductivity, and mechanical strength:
- ✦ Energy Storage & Battery Systems
- Used as a current collector in lithium-ion, nickel-metal hydride (NiMH), and solid-state batteries, nickel foil enhances conductivity, thermal stability, and cycle life in electric vehicles, power tools, and grid-scale storage.
- ✦ Electronics & Circuit Fabrication
- Nickel foil provides ultra-thin, conductive, and corrosion-resistant layers in printed circuit boards, resistors, and flexible electronics. Its structural stability supports high-density circuit designs in advanced electronics.
- ✦ Aerospace & Defence Engineering
- Employed in aerospace components requiring high strength-to-weight ratios and thermal endurance, nickel foil is used in shielding, structural laminates, and high-temperature insulation for aircraft, satellites, and defence systems.
- ✦ Heating Elements & Thermal Systems
- With a high melting point and low electrical resistivity, nickel foil is used in precision heating elements for industrial furnaces, sensors, and thermal control systems operating under sustained high temperatures.
- ✦ Sensors, MEMS & Thin-Film Devices
- Serves as a substrate for thin-film deposition and piezoelectric layers. It supports the fabrication of nickel oxide nanowires, graphene films, and PZT films used in sensors and actuators.
- ✦ Security & Magnetic Tagging
- Its ferromagnetic properties make nickel foil ideal for anti-theft tags, magnetic sensors, and smart packaging. It enables compact, durable, and responsive magnetic components in retail and access control systems.
- ✦ Fuel Cells & Electrolysers
- Nickel foil is increasingly used in hydrogen production and clean energy systems, particularly as a corrosion-resistant electrode material in alkaline fuel cells and water electrolysers.
Mentions in Scientific Literature
Goodfellow's nickel foil features prominently in research including but not exclusive to domains such as:
Magnetoelectric Development, serving as magnetostrictive layers in magnetoelectric (ME) stacks with aluminium nitride (AlN) films for energy harvesting and sensing applications
[1–3]
.
Fluid Mechanics Measurement, used in sandwiched hot-film sensors for calibration-free wall shear stress measurement in turbulent aerospace flows
[4–6]
.
Materials Characterisation & Spectroscopy, acting as detector materials in positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) and calibration standards in X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy
[7–8]
.
Two-Dimensional Materials Research, used as growth substrates for thin films of two-dimensional materials like hexagonal boron nitride, studied via dark field optical imaging
[9]
.
Nuclear Fission Target Protection, used to protect actinide targets in the LOHENGRIN fission fragment separator, reducing sputtering and maintaining fission stability
[10]
.
Chemical & Material Purity Analysis, serving as high-purity reference materials for impurity analysis in electrodeposited nickel using mass spectrometry and electron-probe microanalysis
[11]
.
Advanced Manufacturing Process Monitoring, used in point melting experiments to validate temperature measurement techniques like temperature-emissivity separation (TES) in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) processes
[12]
.
Across these disciplines researchers have utilised our nickel foils as
magnetostrictive layers in magnetoelectric composites for energy harvesting
[1–3]
,
hot-film sensor substrates for calibration-free aerodynamic shear stress measurement
[4–6]
,
spectroscopic detector and calibration reference materials
[7–8]
,
CVD growth substrates for two-dimensional materials
[9]
, and
protective capping layers in nuclear fission experiments
[10]
— applications that all benefit from nickel's high purity, specific material properties, and utility in advancing characterisation techniques and material development.
References & Citations
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- Nguyen, T., Noureddine Adjeroud, Sebastjan Glinsek, Guillot, J., & Polesel-Maris, J. (2019). Low temperature growth of piezoelectric AlN films by plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition and magnetoelectric coupling with nickel for energy harvesting applications. 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1109/powermems49317.2019.51289501164
- Nguyen, T., Noureddine Adjeroud, Sebastjan Glinsek, Fleming, Y., Guillot, J., & Polesel-Maris, J. (2020). Strong Magnetoelectric Effects of 2–2 Composites Made of AlN Films Grown by Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition on Magnetostrictive Foils for Energy Harvesting Applications. 578–581. https://doi.org/10.1109/mems46641.2020.9056193
- Nguyen, T., Fleming, Y., Bender, P., Grysan, P., Valle, N., Adib, B. E., Noureddine Adjeroud, Didier Arl, Emo, M., Jaafar Ghanbaja, Michels, A., & Jérôme Polesel-Maris. (2021). Low-Temperature Growth of AlN Films on Magnetostrictive Foils for High-Magnetoelectric-Response Thin-Film Composites. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13(26), 30874–30884. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c08399
- Liu, X., Li, Z., & Gao, N. (2018). An improved wall shear stress measurement technique using sandwiched hot-film sensors. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 8(2), 137–141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.taml.2018.02.010
- Liu, X., Li, Z., & Gao, N. (2018). A calibration-free wall shear stress measurement technique using hot-film sensors. https://athene-forschung.unibw.de/doc/124209/124209.pdf
- Liu, X., Li, Z., Wu, C., & Gao, N. (2018). Toward calibration-free wall shear stress measurement using a dual hot-film sensor and Kelvin bridges. Measurement Science and Technology, 29(10), 105303–105303. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/aadb1b
- McGuire, S., & Keeble, D. J. (2006). Positron lifetime and implantation in Kapton. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, 39(15), 3388–3393. https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/39/15/025
- van de Kerkhof, G. T., Murphy, C., Abdulrahman, S. H., Poon, T., Hawkins, C., Li, M., Goode, A. E., Parker, J. E., & Schuster, M. E. (2025). Hard X-ray spectromicroscopy of Ni-rich cathodes under in situ liquid heating conditions. Journal of Microscopy, 299(1), 16–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmi.13403
- Kong, X., Ji, H., Piner, R. D., Li, H., Magnuson, C. W., Tan, C., Ismach, A., Chou, H., & Ruoff, R. S. (2025). Non-destructive and Rapid Evaluation of CVD Graphene by Dark Field Optical Microscopy. ArXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5754
- Köster, U., Faust, H., Materna, T., & Mathieu, L. (2009). Experience with in-pile fission targets at LOHENGRIN. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 613(3), 363–370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.09.078
- Bakonyi, I., Tóth-Kádár, E., Pogány, L., Cziráki, Á., Gerőcs, I., Varga-Josepovits, K., Arnold, B., & Wetzig, K. (1999). Preparation and characterization of d.c.-plated nanocrystalline nickel electrodeposits. Surface and Coatings Technology, 78(1–3), 124–136. https://doi.org/10.1016/0257-8972(94)02399-9
- Penny, R. W., & John, H. A. (2025). Radiometric Temperature Measurement for Metal Additive Manufacturing via Temperature Emissivity Separation. ArXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08088
Synonyms
Material Properties
| Element | Value |
|---|---|
| Atomic number | 28 |
| Crystal structure | Face centred cubic |
| Electronic structure | Ar 3d⁸ 4s² |
| Valences shown | 0, 1, 2, 3 |
| Atomic weight( amu ) | 58.69 |
| Thermal neutron absorption cross-section( Barns ) | 4.54 |
| Photo-electric work function( eV ) | 4.9 |
| Natural isotope distribution( Mass No./% ) | 60/ 26.10 |
| Natural isotope distribution( Mass No./% ) | 62/ 3.59 |
| Natural isotope distribution( Mass No./% ) | 61/ 1.13 |
| Natural isotope distribution( Mass No./% ) | 58/ 68.27 |
| Natural isotope distribution( Mass No./% ) | 64/ 0.91 |
| Atomic radius - Goldschmidt( nm ) | 0.125 |
| Ionisation potential( No./eV ) | 2/ 18.2 |
| Ionisation potential( No./eV ) | 4/ 54.9 |
| Ionisation potential( No./eV ) | 6/ 108 |
| Ionisation potential( No./eV ) | 1/ 7.63 |
| Ionisation potential( No./eV ) | 3/ 35.2 |
| Ionisation potential( No./eV ) | 5/ 75.5 |
| Element | Value |
|---|---|
| Hardness - Brinell | 190 |
| Hardness - Brinell | 100 |
| Material condition | Hard |
| Material condition | Soft |
| Poisson's ratio | 0.312 |
| Poisson's ratio | 0.312 |
| Bulk modulus( GPa ) | 177.3 |
| Bulk modulus( GPa ) | 177.3 |
| Tensile modulus( GPa ) | 199.5 |
| Tensile modulus( GPa ) | 199.5 |
| Izod toughness( J m⁻¹ ) | 160 |
| Izod toughness( J m⁻¹ ) | 160 |
| Tensile strength( MPa ) | 400 |
| Tensile strength( MPa ) | 660 |
| Yield strength( MPa ) | 150 |
| Yield strength( MPa ) | 480 |
| Element | Value |
|---|---|
| Electrical resistivity( µOhmcm ) | 6.9@20°C |
| Temperature coefficient( K⁻¹ ) | 0.0068@0-100°C |
| Thermal emf against Pt (cold 0C - hot 100C)( mV ) | -1.48 |
| Element | Value |
|---|---|
| Boiling point( C ) | 2732 |
| Density( gcm⁻³ ) | 8.9@20 |
| Density( gcm⁻³ ) | 8.9@20C |
| Element | Value |
|---|---|
| Melting point( C ) | 1453 |
| Latent heat of evaporation( J g⁻¹ ) | 6378 |
| Latent heat of fusion( J g⁻¹ ) | 292 |
| Specific heat( J K⁻¹ kg⁻¹ ) | 444@25°C |
| Thermal conductivity( W m⁻¹ K⁻¹ ) | 90.9@0-100°C |
| Coefficient of thermal expansion( x10⁻⁶ K⁻¹ ) | 13.3@0-100°C |
Tolerances
| Thickness | <0.01mm | ±25% |
|---|---|---|
| Thickness | 0.01mm - 0.05mm | ±15% |
| Thickness | >0.05mm | ±10% |