In-coating graphene nano-platelets for environmentally-friendly corrosion protection of iron

C.F. Glover, C. Richards, J. Baker, G. Williams, H.N. McMurray

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Abstract

A primer coating system adherent to iron substrates based on graphene nano-platelets (GNPs) dispersed in polyvinylbutyral (PVB) is presented. Using a scanning Kelvin probe (SKP), the composite coatings are shown to exhibit exceptional resistance to an important corrosion-driven failure process, namely cathodic delamination, when aqueous chloride electrolyte is introduced to a penetrating coating defect. Delamination rate kinetics are shown to correlate strongly with reductions in the rate of oxygen permeation through the coating with increasing GNP pigment volume fraction.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)169-172
JournalCorrosion Science
Volume114
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017

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