The invention belongs to the technical field of electric materials and devices, and relates to a method for preparing a flexible
polyester nickel-
coating electrode. The method particularly comprises the following steps of: performing surface silicification modification on a
polyester substrate, and introducing
silane coupler molecules, of which the
tail ends contain active groups such as sulfhydryl groups, amino groups and acylamino groups on the premise of not damaging
surface flatness; performing catalytic activation on the
polyester substrate in
mixed solution of
silver nitrate and glucose so as to make a
thin layer of
silver catalyst coated on the polyester substrate undergoing silicification, wherein the
silver catalyst layer and the substrate are connected by chemical bonds; and finally performing chemical
nickel-plating in the presence of
silver catalyst. The polyester
nickel-
coating electrode prepared by the method has the advantages of strong adhesion between the
nickel coating layer and the substrate, stripping strength of more than 40N / cm, high smoothness, root-mean-square roughness(Rrms) of less than 15nm (the area is 5mu m*5mu m), high electric
conductivity, and lower resistivity (5.3 mu
omega.cm) compared with that of pure nickel. The flexible polyester nickel-
coating electrode can be widely applied to solar batteries, membrane
ion secondary batteries, flexible organic
electric devices, and the like.