In-coating graphene nano-platelets for environmentally-friendly corrosion protection of iron

Autor: Calvin Richards, Hamilton McMurray, Jenny Baker, Geraint Williams, Carol Glover
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Corrosion Science. 114:169-172
ISSN: 0010-938X
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2016.11.009
Popis: A primer coating system adherent to iron substrates based on graphene nano-platelets (GNPs) dispersed in polyvinylbutyral (PVB) is presented. Using a scanning Kelvin probe (SKP), the composite coatings are shown to exhibit exceptional resistance to an important corrosion-driven failure process, namely cathodic delamination, when aqueous chloride electrolyte is introduced to a penetrating coating defect. Delamination rate kinetics are shown to correlate strongly with reductions in the rate of oxygen permeation through the coating with increasing GNP pigment volume fraction.
Databáze: OpenAIRE