The process of electroplating with Cu on the surface of Mg–Li alloy.pdf

Surface Coatings Technology 225 (2013) 119–125 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Surface Coatings Technology journal homepage : www. elsevi er. com/ locate/ surfcoat The process of electroplating with Cu on the surface of Mg–Li alloy Tingting Yin, Ruizhi Wu ⁎, Zhe Leng, Guanjun Du, Xuying Guo, Milin Zhang, Jinghuai Zhang Key Laboratory of Superlight Materials Surface Technology, Ministry of Education, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Mg–Li alloy is a potential applied material because of its ultra-low density. Its poor corrosion and wear resis- Received 20 July 2012 tance hinder the expansive applications. In this research, an electroplating mean was carried to obtain a Accepted in revised form 15 March 2013 Cu-coating on the Mg–Li alloy. The main factors that influence the electroplating effect were examined Available online 26 March 2013 through orthogonal experiments, and the determined optimum processing parameters by electrochemical tests are as follows: concentration of main salt is 50 g/L, current density is 2 A/dm2, solution temperature Keywords: is 40 °C and electroplating time is 30 min, respectively. Afterwards, surface and cross-section morphology Mg–Li alloy Electroplating feature and elemental composition were characterized by SEM and E