Journal
SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY
Volume 441, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2022.128556
Keywords
Plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO); Microarc discharge; Amorphous silica nanoparticles; High pressure phase; Stishovite; Collision interaction
Funding
- Russian Science Foundation [21-19-00656]
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation [FEMR-2020-0003]
- Russian Science Foundation [21-19-00656] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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The effects of adding different sizes of amorphous silica nanoparticles to the electrolyte during plasma-electrolytic oxidation of Al-Si alloy 361.0 were studied. The presence of 48 nm nanoparticles led to the unexpected formation of high pressure SiO2-phase, increasing oxidizability and improving the properties of oxide layers. A quantitative model was introduced to explain the interaction between nanoparticles and oxide layers, predicting structural changes and improvements in protective and mechanical properties.
The effects of different amorphous silica nanoparticles (NPs) with average particle size of 48 nm - n-SiO2(48) and 100 nm - n-SiO2(100) added to the electrolyte under plasma-electrolytic oxidation (PEO) of Al-Si alloy 361.0 (9.8 wt. % Si) on the oxide layers structure, phase composition and properties were investigated. Unexpected formation of high pressure (HP) SiO2-phase - stishovite was detected in the oxide layers formed using n-SiO2(48) under ambient conditions. This HP-phase was not detected while using n-SiO2(100) and the electrolyte without nanoparticles. It was found that the addition of the n-SiO2 resulted in significant increase in the oxidizability, and, accordingly, in the thickness of the PEO-formed oxide layers, their wear resistance (by -1.5 times) and thermal resistivity (by -4 times) as compared to the oxide layers obtained without NPs. It also resulted in crystallite size reduction and an increase of the amorphous phase fraction, both effects are more pronounced while using n-SiO2(48) despite the equal initial concentrations of the nanopowders in the electrolyte (3 g/l). To explain these effects, a novel approach to the NPs/oxide layer interaction and the corresponding quantitative model were introduced. The interaction was considered as the colliding with the rigid oxide layer surface of rapidly moving charged NPs accelerated by electric field in the vapour-gas bubbles (VGB) formed in porous channels prior micro-arc discharge. During elastic/inelastic collision, the particle kinetic energy transforms to compressive strain energy, heating of the particle and/or to kinetic energy of the bounced off particle providing different interaction scenarios depending on the particle size. The developed model makes it possible to predict the HP SiO2-phase formation, an increase in the fraction of amorphous phases and reduction in the crystallite size in the PEO-formed layers in the presence of NPs, which can result in improvement of protective and mechanical properties of the layer.
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