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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 18, Issue 20, Pages 3137-3147Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200800630
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- DAAD/GRICES the German/Portuguese collaboration project [D/06/12931]
- German Ministry of Science and Education
- FCT [REEQ/719/CTM/2005-ECOFUELS]
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This work presents a new type of feed-back active coating with inhibitor-containing reserviors for corrosion protection of metallic substrates. The reservoirs are composed of stratified layers of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes film with the entrapped corrosion inhibitor is constucted by sequential spray-coating deposition of water solutions of poly(ethyleneimine), poly(sodium styrenesulfonate) and 8-hydroxyquiniline on the top of the sol-gel coating. The active corrosion protection of AA2024 alloy coated with SiO2/ZrO2 sol-gel film and modified by polyelectrolytes is demonstrated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and scanning vibrating electrode technique. The results obtained here show that polyelectrolyte films deposited atop of the hybrid sol-gel coating on AA2024 alloy remarkably improve the long-tern protection performance providing additional intelligent anticorrosion effect that results from delivery of inhibiting species on demand. This becomes possible since the configuration of the polyelectrolyte molecules depends on the presence of H+ ions making the polyelectrolyte film sensitive the configuration of the polyelectrolyte molecules depends on the presence of H+ ions making the polyelectrolyte film sensitive to the pH of the surrounding solution. The source of local pH changes is the corrosion process starting in the micro- and nano-defects leading to increased permeability of the polyelectrolyte reservoir and, consequently, to controllable release of entrapped inhibitor.
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