Journal
SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY
Volume 251, Issue -, Pages 7-14Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2014.03.060
Keywords
Superhydrophobic surface; Magnesium alloy; Anticorrosion; Chemical stability; Self-cleaning
Funding
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [XDJK2012C011]
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A highly anticorrosion and self-cleaning superhydrophobic surface with hierarchical flowerlike structures fabricated on AZ91D magnesium alloy is reported in this work. The hierarchical micro/nanostructures were created through electrodeposition of Ni-Co alloy coating. Followed by modification of stearic acid, a superhydrophobic surface with a water contact angle as high as 167.3 +/- 13 degrees and an ultra-low sliding angle of about 1 degrees was achieved. The anticorrosion performance of the superhydrophobic surface was studied by using a combination of potentiodynamic polarization and EIS in neutral 3.5 wt.% NaCl solutions. The superhydrophobic surface can present an excellent anticorrosion effect with the inhibition efficiency of 99.99% to the bare magnesium alloy and its corrosion rate being 0.06% of that of bare magnesium alloy. The resulting superhydrophobic surface showed excellent superhydrophobicity in a wide range of pH values from 1 to 14. Besides, the as-prepared superhydrophobic surface possessed good chemical stability and self-cleaning effect. It's believed that the highly anticorrosion and self-cleaning superhydrophobic surface can efficiently protect magnesium alloy from corrosion and expand its application scope. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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