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SECM study of defect repair in self-healing polymer coatings on metals
- Source :
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Electrochemistry Communications, Vol 13, Iss 2, Pp 169-173 (2011)
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2011.
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Abstract
- In this paper the local healing efficiency of shape-memory polymers as a new alternative for the protection against corrosion of damaged coated metals is studied by scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). These measurements allowed us to evaluate the local corrosion activity at a damaged self-healing polymer coating on an aluminum alloy before and after the thermally healing process of the shape-memory polymer film. SECM operating in redox-competition mode is applied to monitor in situ the reduction of oxygen as a cathodic process in the corrosion onset at a coating defect as a function of exposure time in 0.05 M NaCl solution. It is proven that the physical repair of the film in the defect leads to a recovery of the local barrier properties of the coated system and subsequent protection of the aluminum alloy. Keywords: Self-healing, Scanning electrochemical microscopy, Organic coatings, Shape-memory polymer
- Subjects :
- chemistry.chemical_classification
Materials science
Metallurgy
Alloy
coating
Polymer
engineering.material
Corrosion
Cathodic protection
lcsh:Chemistry
Scanning electrochemical microscopy
lcsh:Industrial electrochemistry
lcsh:QD1-999
Coating
chemistry
Self-healing
Electrochemistry
engineering
Composite material
Self-healing material
polymers
lcsh:TP250-261
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13882481
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Electrochemistry Communications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....88cc4ac7e6822a55704cc2bfcc6ecfca