Authors: Bahaedin Nikrooz Morteza Zandrahimi
Publish Date: 2011/07/22
Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 640-
Abstract
Anticorrosion silica coating was prepared via the sol–gel method for AZ91D magnesium alloy using tetraethoxysilane and methyltriethoxysilane as precursors Silica coating was deposited on fluorinated magnesium alloy substrates by dip coating The surface morphology of the silica coating was characterized by scanning electron microscope SEM The corrosion properties were studied by electrochemical impedance measurements and polarisation technique in 35 wt Sodium chloride solution The results showed an improvement in the corrosion performance from these coatings A threefactor threelevel design of experiment DOE with response surface methodology including a Box–Behnken design was run to evaluate the main and interaction effects of several independent formulation variables which included precursor ratios MTES/TEOS X1 sintering temperature X3 and sol dilution X2 which measured the volume of the diluted sol divided by the initial volume of sol The dependent variables included the corrosion current derived from the polarisation curve icor = Y1 and the coating resistance derived from the Nyquist curve Rcoat = Y2 Optimizations were predicted to yield Y1 and Y2 values of 157018E–7A cm−2 and 14279 Ω cm2 when X1 X2 and X3 were 336 152 and 222 respectively
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