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Effects of One-step and Two-step Treatment Regimes on the Characteristics of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) Coatings on Aluminum

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTROCHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 4730-4753

Publisher

ESG
DOI: 10.20964/2019.05.19

Keywords

Plasma electrolytic oxidation; Treatment regime; Stripped coating; Microstructure corresponding relation; Growth model

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51671167, 51171167]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China [2015203348, B2015203406]

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Plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) processing of aluminum is galvanostatically carried out through one-step and two-step treatment regimes in an alkaline sodium silicate electrolyte without and with sodium tungstate additive agent. The microstructure, phase composition and corrosion resistance of the resultant coatings are investigated by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), 3-dimensional imaging techniques and potentiodynamic polarization tests. Some PEO coatings are stripped from the aluminum substrate via an electrochemical coating stripping method to intuitively disclose the corresponding relations among the characteristic structures of the free surface, fractured cross-section and coating/substrate interface. Further, coating growth models describing the one-step and two-step treatments are proposed according to the present PEO coating microstructure characteristics. The potentiodynamic polarization test results demonstrate that the one-step PEO coating treated in the compound silicate-tungstate electrolyte for 20 min exhibits the best resistance to corrosion as compared to bare Al and other PEO coatings.

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