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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 162, Issue 14, Pages C732-C740Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/2.0381514jes
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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The filiform-like corrosion of extruded Mg alloy AM30 immersed in a dilute near-neutral NaCl solution was investigated using electrochemical techniques coupled with transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Scanning vibrating electrode technique (SVET) measurements showed that the filament-like corrosion consisted of an intensely anodic propagation front supported by a cathodically-activated filament behind. The TEM examination of the corroded and intact surface films in cross-section using thin foils prepared by focused-ion-beam (FIB) milling indicated that the cathodic activity was likely a combined result of the formation of a thick, highly-defective MgO film and the ability of Al-Mn intermetallic particles to catalyze the cathodic H-2 gas evolution reaction. The formation of an Al-rich layer at the film/alloy interface with time, due to the incongruent dissolution of the alloy, was not able to stop the initiation and propagation of the filaments. (C) The Author(s) 2015. Published by ECS. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse of the work in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. All rights reserved.
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