A study on the relationships between corrosion （研究腐蚀之间的关系）.pdf

1 A study on the relationships between corrosion properties and chemistry of thermally oxidised surface films formed on polished commercial magnesium alloys AZ31 and AZ61 a a b c Sebastián Feliu (Jr) , Alejandro Samaniego , Violeta Barranco , A.A. El-Hadad , Irene Llorentea , Carmen Serrad and J.C. Galvána aCentro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas CSIC, Avda. Gregorio del Amo 8, 28040 Madrid, Spain, (e-mail: sfeliu@cenim.csic.es) bInstituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Madrid, ICMM, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain. cPhysics Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City 11884, Cairo, Egypt . dServicio de Nanotecnologia y Análisis de Superficies, CACTI, Universidade de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain Corresponding author: Tel.: +34 91 5538900. Fax.: +34 91 5347425. Email address: sfeliu@cenim.csic.es Abstract: This paper studies the changes in chemical composition of the thin oxide surface films induced by heating in air at 200ºC for time intervals from 5 minutes up to 60 minutes on the freshly polished commercial AZ31 and AZ61 alloys with a view to better understanding their protective properties. This thermal treatment resulted in the formation of layers enriched in metallic aluminium at the interface between the outer MgO surface films and the bulk material. A strong link was found between the degree of metallic Al enrichment in the subsurface layer (from 10 to 15 at %) observed by XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy) in the AZ61 treated samples and the increase in protective properties observed by EIS