《Electrochemical codeposition of typical α + β phases Mg-Li alloys from the molten LiCl-KCl-MgCl_2 system》.pdfVIP

RARE METALS Vol. 29, No. 2, Apr 2010, p. 198 DOI: 10.1007/s12598-010-0034-2 Electrochemical codeposition of typical α + β phases Mg-Li alloys from the molten LiCl-KCl-MgCl system 2 YE Ke, CHEN Ye, and ZHANG Milin Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Superlight Materials Surface Technology, College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineer- ing University, Harbin 150001, China Received 17 March 2009; received in revised form 27 March 2009; accepted 10 April 2009 © The Nonferrous Metals Society of China and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 Abstract Electrochemical codeposition of Mg-Li alloys on molybdenum electrodes was investigated in LiCl-KCl (50 wt.%:50 wt.%) melts containing different concentrations of MgCl2 at 973 K. Cyclic voltammograms show that the underpotential deposition of lithium on pre-deposited magnesium leads to the formation of liquid Mg-Li alloys. The deposition potentials of Mg(II) and Li(І) ions gradually near each other with MgCl2 concentration decreasing. Mg-Li alloys with typical α + β phases could be obtained by potentiostatic electrolysis from LiCl-KCl melts containing 5 wt.% MgCl2 at −2.25 V vs. Ag/AgCl (cathodic current density 1.70 A⋅cm–2) for 2.5 h. α phase, α + β phases, and β phase Mg-Li alloys with different lithium contents were obtained by potentiostatic electrolysis from LiCl-KCl melts with the different concentra- tions of MgCl2. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. Keywords: physical chemistry; Mg-Li alloys; electrochemical codeposition; molten salt; electrolysis 1. Introduction the improved mechanical properties as well as good corro- sion resistance [6]. Mg-Li alloys, known as the lightest metallic m