Anodic oxidation and powder coating for corrosion protection of AM60B magnesium alloys.pdf

Features of microarc oxidation coatings formation technology in slurry electrolytes V.N. Malyshev *, K.M. Zorin Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, 65 Leninsky Prospekt, 119991 Moscow, Russia Received 14 November 2006; received in revised form 31 May 2007; accepted 4 July 2007 Available online 17 July 2007 Abstract A group of electrolytes composed of different powders entered into electrolyte presents a separate direction in microarc oxidation (MAO) technology. This group of electrolytes is most complex and however it has not been sufficiently studied yet. This paper shows that addition of powders of different nature into electrolyte influences both on properties of obtained coatings and on speed of their formation. The MAO-coatings formed in similar electrolytes-suspensions or slurry electrolytes (SE) contain in their composition an essential share of powder material entered into electrolyte as corpuscles of disperse phase (DP). Different nonmetallic combinations are used: oxides, carbides, borides, nitrides of metals and others. The particular conditions of microarc discharge regime (high temperature and pressure in a zone of breakdown) cause a thermolysis of electrolyte together with weighed corpuscles of solid matter, the realization of plasma chemical reactions on oxidizing surface and provide the synthesis of chemical combinations in an oxide matrix. A new composition of slurry electrolyte which allows improving the quality of obtained coatings on the basis of held investigations was developed. # 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification : 81.65Mq; 82.33Xj; 82.45Xy; 82.70y; 82.70Kj Keywords: Microarc oxidation; Slurry electrolytes; Oxides; Borides; Carbides; Nitrides of metals; Ceramic coating; Disperse phase /locate/apsusc Applied Surface Science 254 (2007) 1511–15161. Introduction The microarc oxidation (MAO) technology is a relatively new and effective method of producing thick, hard and well-adhered ceramic coatings with excel