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Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/str.12215
Keywords
DIC; digital image correlation; magnesium; Mg; SEM
Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering as part of the Center for PRedictive Integrated Structural Materials Science (PRISMS) at the University of Michigan [DE-SC0008637]
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We investigate the self-assembly of gold nanoparticles on the surface of magnesium functionalized with 3-(aminopropyl)trimethoxysilane or 3-(mercaptopropyl)trimethoxysilane. These nanoparticles served as a speckle pattern for high magnification deformation tracking via digital image correlation combined with scanning electron microscopy. Controlling the pH of the gold nanoparticle suspension to a specific basicity passivated corrosion in magnesium and in three of its alloys to enable proper nanoparticle bonding and self-assembly. Magnesium was used as a model material as it is particularly difficult to modify for self-assembly because of its propensity to quickly form a thick oxide, hydroxide, and carbonate layer in the presence of oxygen, water, and carbon dioxide, respectively. Moreover, it corrodes in acidic and slightly basic solutions, further complicating the self-assembly process. Due to these difficulties, the successful self-assembly of nanoparticles on magnesium has not previously been reported, to the best of the authors' knowledge. This technique is potentially amendable to other corrosion-susceptible materials. Gold nanoparticles were self-assembled in a uniformly dispersed random distribution on pure cast magnesium, cast AM60 (Mg-6Al-0.5Mn), rolled WE43 (Mg-4Y-3Nd/Gd), and extruded ZE20 (Mg-2Zn-0.2Ce).
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