Sustainable coatings on conductive parts such as a magnesium-based laptop chassis

A layer stack of materials for housing electronic components, the layer stack comprising:

• a conductive layer;
• a graphite-based layer stacked on and attached to one side of the conductive layer;
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• a thin film cosmetic layer stacked on and attached to the graphite-based layer.

A process for making a chassis, the process comprising:

• forming a chassis body;
• depositing via electrochemical deposition a coating material onto a conductive surface of the chassis body;
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• layering via a vacuum transfer process a thin film over the coating material, wherein the vacuum transfer process comprises wrapping the conductive surface with the thin film and attaching the thin film onto the chassis body by vacuum transfer.