Wire Electrochemical Etching of Superhydrophobic Nickel Surfaces with Enhanced Corrosion Protection

Autor: Binghan Wu, Defeng Yan, Junyi Lin, Jinlong Song
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Materials, Vol 16, Iss 23, p 7472 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1996-1944
DOI: 10.3390/ma16237472
Popis: Superhydrophobic nickel surfaces have significant advantages in the field of corrosion protection compared with traditional nickel corrosion protection methods which need a toxic chemical corrosion inhibitor. Electrochemical etching, an ideal method for fabricating superhydrophobic nickel surfaces, was also limited by low current density, resulting in low processing efficiency. To overcome this limitation, we proposed a new method to fabricate a superhydrophobic nickel surface using a wire electrochemical etching method. The wire electrochemical etching method accomplished the etching process by sweeping a controlled wire cathode across the surface of the anode nickel plate in an environmentally friendly neutral electrolyte, NaCl. The superhydrophobic nickel sample with a contact angle of 153° and a rolling angle of 10° could be fabricated by wire electrochemical etching and modification. Additionally, the optimal parameters of the wire electrochemical etching and the principle of superhydrophobic surface formation had also been systematically investigated, respectively. Moreover, the superhydrophobic nickel surface had self-cleaning performance, antifouling performance, corrosion protection, and abrasion resistance. Wire electrochemical etching improves the current density of processing, which means that this method improves the processing efficiency for fabricating a superhydrophobic nickel surface. This work is expected to enrich the theory and technology for fabricating superhydrophobic nickel surfaces to improve the corrosion protection of nickel.
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