ultrasonic corrosion-anodization electrochemical cell design and process range testing超声波corrosion-anodization电化电池设计和流程范围测试.pdf

Journal of Surface Engineered Materials and Advanced Technology, 2012, 2, 1-10 1 /10.4236/jsemat.2012.21001 Published Online January 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jsemat) Ultrasonic Corrosion-Anodization: Electrochemical Cell Design and Process Range Testing 1 1* 2 Kyriakos Roushia , Kyriaki Polychronopoulou , Charalambos C. Doumanidis 1Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; 2National Science Foundation, Nanomanufacturing Program, Arlington, USA. Email: kpolychronopoulou@ Received August 10th, 2011; revised September 17th, 2011; accepted October 28th, 2011 ABSTRACT Titanium was used in the present work as the test metal for the first ultrasonic corrosion anodization (UCA) study, be- cause of its important photonics and biomedical applications. The electrochemical cell design was implemented and tested under various experimental conditions combinations (e.g. electrolyte concentration, duration, temperature, ultra- sound presence or absence, oxygen presence, etc.) in order to investigate the effect of those parameters in the cracks propagation in Ti-foils. It was found that an increase of cracks takes place when oxygen is provided in the electrolyte solution and when ultrasound is applied. The results presented in the current study could be exploitable towards design of materials having dendritic morphologies, applicable in a wide range of processes from photovoltaics to biocompati- ble materials. Keywords: Titanium; SEM; Stress Corrosion; Polarization; Anodic Dissolution 1. Introduction challenges in control of the requisite diffusive and/or r