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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 798262, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2011/798262 Research Article Effect of Induced Charge on the Passivity and Passivity Breakdown of 304LN Stainless Steels Gargi Roy Chowdhury and P. K. Mitra Department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700 032, India Correspondence should be addressed to Gargi Roy Chowdhury, roychowdhurygargi@ Received 16 March 2011; Revised 28 April 2011; Accepted 8 June 2011 Academic Editor: Luigi Nicolais Copyright © 2011 G. Roy Chowdhury and P. K. Mitra. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Passivity breakdown of stainless steel by pitting in chloride environment is believed to occur at point at zero charge (pzc). So, the nature and quantity of charge on the surface plays a very important role on the breakdown of passivity, as chloride ion adsorption depends on that. In this work a DC potential was maintained between aluminium and graphite electrodes, and the aluminium electrode, in turn, was kept in the vicinity of the working electrode in the potentiostatic circuit. Both positive and negative polarity was applied on aluminium to attract or repel chloride ions in the vicinity of the working electrode. Chloride adsorption pattern on the stainless steel electrode got drastically altered due to application of DC potential on the aluminium-graphite circuit. 1. Introduction layer as well as impeding the ingress of OH− and Cl−