Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 436, Issue -, Pages 527-535Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.11.211
Keywords
Corrosion resistance; Superhydrophobicity; Photo-induced cathodic protection; WO3@TiO2; Nano-flake; Dealloying
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Funding
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [U1430118, 51771098]
- National Energy Novel Materials Center China Academy of Engineering Physics [NEN-MCelle1703]
- Science Challenge Project [tz2016004]
- Fund of the joint China-Italy Project [2016YFE0104000]
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education [2017AML10]
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To eliminate harmful localized corrosion, a new approach by constructing superhydrophobic WO3@TiO2 hierarchical nanoflake surface beyond FeW amorphous alloy formed on stainless steel was proposed. Facile dealloying and liquid deposition was employed at low temperature to form a nanostructured layer composing inner WO3 nanoflakes coated with TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) layer. After further deposition of PFDS on nanoflakes, the contact angle reached 162 while the corrosion potential showed a negative shift of 230 mV under illumination, resulting in high corrosion resistance in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution. The tradeoff between superhydrophobic surface and photo-electro response was investigated. It was found that this surface feature makes 316 SS be immune to localized corrosion and a pronounced photo-induced process of electron storage/release as well as the stability of the functional layer were detected with or without illumination, and the mechanism behind this may be related to the increase of surface potential due to water repellence and the delayed cathodic protection of semiconducting coating derived mainly from the valence state changes of WO3. This study demonstrates a simple and low-cost electrochemical approach for protection of steel and novel means to produce superhydrophobic surface and cathodic protection with controllable electron storage/release on engineering scale. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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