The study of the thermal, wear and corrosion properties of developed nanocomposite coatings of Zn-Al2O3 and Zn-Cr2O3 was carried out. The coatings were produced by electrodeposition technique from chloride acidic bath. Laboratory tube furnace was used for the thermal analysis. The wear test was performed using CETR tribo-tester dry reciprocating tester. The hardness properties were investigated using diamond base Dura microhardness tester. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) affixed with energy dispersive spectrometry was used to study the morphological characteristics, before and after wear deformation. The corrosion degradation behavior was observed using linear polarization technique in 3.5% NaCl. In all the interaction, the effects of the incorporated Al2O3 and Cr2O3 nanoparticulates on zinc rich coatings were found to have an excellent influence on the wear, corrosion and thermal stability properties. The fabrication and properties exhibited by the alloys were therefore found to be satisfactory and shows good predictability and applicability.
The corrosion inhibition of aluminium alloy in 0.5M H2SO4 solution in the presence of zinc gluconate at 301 K was investigated using weight loss and an electrochemical method. Surface analysis of the aluminium alloy sample was reviewed by a high resolution scanning electron microscope equipped with energy dispersive spectroscopy (HRSEM/ EDS). The readings were taken after 48 h for 28 days while the concentration of the inhibitor was varied from 0.5 to 2.0% g/v with an interval of 0.5. The result of the investigation shows that zinc gluconate has a good corrosion inhibition effect for aluminium alloy in 0.5 molar sulphuric acid solution and its efficiency attains more than 67% at 1.5% g/v concentration of zinc gluconate at 301 K. The potentiodynamic polarization data showed that zinc gluconate acts as a mixed type corrosion inhibitor. The adsorption of zinc gluconate on aluminium alloy has been found to obey Freundlich adsorption isotherm at all the concentration of zinc gluconate studied. The results obtained from different methods are in good agreement.
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