High Corrosion Resistance Offered by Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Directly Grown Over Mild Steel Substrate

Arora, Sweety and Rekha, MY and Gupta, Abhay and Srivastava, Chandan (2018) High Corrosion Resistance Offered by Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Directly Grown Over Mild Steel Substrate. In: JOM, 70 (11). pp. 2590-2595.

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Abstract

The inert and hydrophobic nature of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) makes them a potential material for corrosion protection coatings. In this work, a uniform coating of multi-walled CNTs (MWCNTs) was formed over a mild steel substrate by direct decomposition of a ferrocene-benzene mixture over the substrate which was kept inside a chemical vapor deposition setup at a temperature of 800 degrees C. The MWCNTs formed over the substrate were characterized using x-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy techniques. Corrosion behavior of the bare and MWCNT-coated mild steel substrate was examined through potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy methods. A significant improvement in the corrosion resistance in terms of the reduction in corrosion current and corrosion rate and increase in polarization resistance was noted in the case of the MWCNT-coated mild steel plate. Corrosion resistance increased due to MWCNT coating.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	JOM
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Additional Information:	copyright for this article belongs to SPRINGER
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2018 13:54
Last Modified:	12 Aug 2022 08:59
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/61241

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