Abstract
© 2019 Nicolenco, Mulone, Imaz, Tsyntsaru, Sort, Pellicer, Klement, Cesiulis and García-Lecina. In this study, nanocrystalline Fe-W alloy and Fe-W/Al 2 O 3 composite coatings with various contents of sub-microsized alumina particles have been obtained by electrodeposition from an environmentally friendly Fe(III)-based electrolyte with the aim to produce a novel corrosion and wear resistant material. The increase in volume fraction of Al 2 O 3 in deposits from 2 to 12% leads to the grain refinement effect, so that the structure of the coatings change from nanocrystalline to amorphous-like with grain sizes below 20 nm. Nevertheless, the addition of particles to the Fe-W matrix does not prevent the development of a columnar structure revealed for all the types of studied coatings. The observed reduction in both hardness and elastic modulus of the Fe-W/Al 2 O 3 composites is attributed to the apparent grain size refinement/amorphization and the nanoporosity surrounding the embedded Al 2 O 3 particles. In the presence of 12 vol% of Al 2 O 3 in deposits, the wear rate decreases by a factor of 10 as compared to Fe-W alloy tested under dry friction conditions due to the lowering of tribo-oxidation. The addition of alumina particles slightly increases the corrosion resistance of the coatings; however, the corrosion in neutral chloride solution occurs through the preferential dissolution of Fe from the matrix. The obtained results provide a possibility to integrate the nanocrystalline Fe-W/Al 2 O 3 composite coatings into various systems working under dry friction conditions, for example, in high-temperature vacuum systems.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 241 |
Pages (from-to) | 241 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Frontiers in Chemistry |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | MAR |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 16 Apr 2019 |
Keywords
- Alumina
- Columnar growth
- Composite coatings
- Iron alloys
- Wear resistance
- MATRIX
- iron alloys
- columnar growth
- BEHAVIOR
- DEPOSITION
- CODEPOSITION
- composite coatings
- NANOPARTICLES
- alumina
- ALLOYS
- wear resistance
- NI-W COATINGS
- SLIDING WEAR
- HARDNESS
- WEAR-RESISTANCE