Abstract
Chemical interactions between aqueous vanadium species and aluminium alloy AA6063-T5 were investigated in vanadate-containing NaCl solutions. Confocal Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy experiments were utilised to gain insight into the mechanism of corrosion inhibition by vanadates. A greenish-grey coloured surface layer, consisting of V+4 and V+5 polymerized species, was seen to form on the alloy surface, especially on top of cathodic micrometre-sized IMPs, whereby suppressing oxygen reduction kinetics. The results suggest a two-step mechanism of corrosion inhibition in which V+5 species are first reduced to V+4 or V+3 species above cathodic IMPs, and then oxidized to mixed-valence V+5/V+4 polymerized compounds.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 237-250 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Corrosion Science |
| Volume | 148 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
Keywords
- A. Alloy
- A. Aluminium
- B. Raman spectroscopy
- B. SEM
- B. XPS
- C. Vanadate inhibitor