Journal
SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY
Volume 204, Issue 3, Pages 237-245Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2009.06.048
Keywords
Nanoparticle; Epoxy coating; Corrosion resistance; Nanoindentation; SEM; EIS; AFM
Funding
- U.S. Department of Transportation through the University Transportation Center
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Homogeneous epoxy coatings containing nanoparticles Of SiO(2), Zn, Fe(2)O(3) and halloysite clay were successfully synthesized on steel substrates by room-temperature curing of a fully mixed epoxy slurry diluted by acetone. The surface morphology and mechanical properties of these coatings were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy, respectively. The effect of incorporating various nanoparticles on the corrosion resistance of epoxy-coated steel was investigated by potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The electrochemical monitoring of the coated steel over 28 days of immersion in both 0.3 wt.% and 3 wt.% NaCl solutions suggested the beneficial role of nanoparticles in significantly improving the corrosion resistance of the coated steel, with the Fe(2)O(3) and halloysite clay nanoparticles being the best. The SiO(2) nanoparticles were found to significantly improve the microstructure of the coating matrix and thus enhanced both the anticorrosive performance and Young's modulus of the epoxy coating. In addition to enhancing the coating barrier performance, at least another mechanism was at work to account for the role of the nanoparticles in improving the anticorrosive performance of these epoxy coatings. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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