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Chemical Etching, Thermally Driven Combination Strategy to Fabricate Superhydrophobic Fe-Based Amorphous Coatings
Tengda Ma1,2, Debin Wang2,3, Weiping Tong1
1Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Processing of Materials, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.
Abstract:
Fe-based amorphous coatings are ideal materials for surface protection due to their outstanding mechanical properties and corrosion resistance. However, coating defects are inevitably formed during the preparation of coatings by thermal spray technology, which seriously affects the corrosion performance. Inspired by bionics, conceiving superhydrophobic surfaces with liquid barrier properties has become a new idea for the corrosion protection of metal surfaces. In this work, based on surface hydroxylation, we designed a superhydrophobic Fe-based amorphous coating with corrosion resistance by chemical etching combined with a thermally driven preparation strategy. The obtained superhydrophobic coatings exhibit liquid repellency (contact angle >150°) and excellent corrosion resistance (corrosion current density and passive current density reduced by 3 orders of magnitude). The results revealed that the superhydrophobic behavior stems from the construction of hydroxyl-induced surface micro-/nanomultilevel aggregates (cluster structures). The hydrophobic agent layer deposited on the surface of cluster aggregates and the nanoparticle elements that constitute the clusters dominate the corrosion resistance of the coating. This work provides an effective guide to the design of high-corrosion-resistant Fe-based amorphous alloy coatings and promotes their engineering applications.
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