CORROSION BEHAVIOR OF PURE Mg BASED ON GENERATION/COLLECTION AND FEEDBACK MODES OF SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY
Xinyin WANG,Yan XIA,Yaru ZHOU,Linlin NIE,Fahe CAO(),Jianqing ZHANG,Chunan CAO
Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027
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Xinyin WANG, Yan XIA, Yaru ZHOU, Linlin NIE, Fahe CAO, Jianqing ZHANG, Chunan CAO. CORROSION BEHAVIOR OF PURE Mg BASED ON GENERATION/COLLECTION AND FEEDBACK MODES OF SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY. Acta Metall Sin, 2015, 51(5): 631-640.
Since electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, polarization curve and hydrogen collection were the main technologies for corrosion research of Mg and its alloy. However, those methods only provide the mean information of entire surface of corrosion electrode. In this work, H2 evolution and active sites of pure Mg from localized sites (point, line and surface) in NaCl and Na2SO4 solution based on generation/collection and feedback modes of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) were studied. The results indicate that both cathodic and anodic polarization are in favor of H2 evolution in NaCl and Na2SO4 solution, which is well in line with the negative difference effect by the classical H2 collection, but the SECM results show that the H2 evolution in localized sites is not uniform and stable. The H2 evolution rate increases with NaCl concentration increasing, which is opposite in Na2SO4 solution. The higher NaCl concentration, anodic polarization and lower pH value accelerate the formation of active sites on pure Mg surface.
Fund: National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.51171172 and 51131005) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.2015QNA3011)