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Rahimi, E. (author), Imani, Amin (author), Lekka, Maria (author), Andreatta, Francesco (author), Gonzalez Garcia, Y. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Asselin, Edouard (author), Fedrizzi, Lorenzo (author)The formation of a protein nanobiofilm on the surface of degradable biomaterials such as magnesium (Mg) and its alloys influences metal ion release, cell adhesion/spreading, and biocompatibility. During the early stage of human body implantation, competition and interaction between inorganic species and protein molecules result in a complex...journal article 2022
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Liu, Tong (author), Zhang, Dawei (author), Ma, Lingwei (author), Huang, Yao (author), Hao, Xiangping (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Li, Xiaogang (author)Herein, we report the development of a self-sensing and active corrosion protection coating which incorporates pH-sensitive multilayer chitosan/alginate-covered CaCO<sub>3</sub> microcontainers containing 1,10-phenanthrolin-5-amine (APhen). The microcontainers can respond to pH variation to release APhen which serves not only as a corrosion...review 2022
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Bakhit, Babak (author), Dorri, Samira (author), Kosari, A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Petrov, Ivan (author), Birch, Jens (author), Hultman, Lars (author), Greczynski, Grzegorz (author)We study microstructure, mechanical, and corrosion properties of Zr<sub>1-x</sub>Cr<sub>x</sub>B<sub>y</sub> coatings deposited by hybrid high-power impulse/DC magnetron co-sputtering (CrB<sub>2</sub>-HiPIMS/ZrB<sub>2</sub>-DCMS). Cr/(Zr + Cr) ratio, x, increases from 0.13 to 0.9, while B/(Zr + Cr) ratio, y, decreases from 2.92 to 1.81. As...journal article 2022
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Kosari, A. (author), Ahmadi, M. (author), Tichelaar, F.D. (author), Visser, P. (author), Gonzalez Garcia, Y. (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)Cerium-based compounds have been studied for decades as non-toxic candidates for the protection of aerospace aluminium alloys (AAs) like AA2024-T3. However, the complex heterogeneous microstructure of these alloys has hindered a thorough understanding of the subsequent stages of corrosion protection provided by this class of inhibitors. Thus,...journal article 2021
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Neupane, Shova (author), Losada-Pérez, Patricia (author), Tiringer, U. (author), Taheri, P. (author), Desta, Derese (author), Xie, Chenyang (author), Crespo, Daniel (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Milošev, Ingrid (author), Kokalj, Anton (author), Renner, Frank Uwe (author)The initiation of corrosion can be triggered by defects in the adsorbed layer of organic inhibitors. A detailed knowledge of the intermolecular forces between the inhibitor molecules and the interfacial bonding will be decisive to unravel the mechanisms driving the corrosion initiation. In this work, adsorbed organic layers of 2-mercapto-5...journal article 2021
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Visser, P. (author), Ranade, S. (author), Laird, J. S. (author), Glenn, A. M. (author), Hughes, A. E. (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)Depletion depths of inorganic components from a scribe edge in a polyurethane primer containing Li<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>3</sub>, MgO, BaSO<sub>4</sub> and TiO<sub>2</sub> beneath a topcoat, were determined using a range of techniques including SEM/EDS and proton induced X-ray and γ-ray emission spectroscopies. SEM of sections cut using an ion...journal article 2021
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Cutz, L. (author), Tiringer, U. (author), Gilvari, H. (author), Schott, D.L. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), de Jong, W. (author)The use of biomass pellets as a source of renewable energy has increased in recent times. However, pellet storage during transportation can compromise their properties, due to fluctuating temperature and humid environments. Here, we show that extended storage of one month at 40 °C and 85% relative humidity causes significant biomass pellet...journal article 2021
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Putra, N.E. (author), Leeflang, M.A. (author), Minneboo, M.B. (author), Taheri, P. (author), Fratila-Apachitei, E.L. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Zhou, J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Extrusion-based 3D printing followed by debinding and sintering is a powerful approach that allows for the fabrication of porous scaffolds from materials (or material combinations) that are otherwise very challenging to process using other additive manufacturing techniques. Iron is one of the materials that have been recently shown to be...journal article 2021
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Kokalj, Anton (author), Lozinšek, Matic (author), Kapun, Barbara (author), Taheri, P. (author), Neupane, Shova (author), Losada-Pérez, Patricia (author), Xie, Chenyang (author), Stavber, Stojan (author), Crespo, Daniel (author), Renner, Frank U. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Milošev, Ingrid (author)The often used simplistic correlations between molecular electronic parameters and experimentally determined corrosion inhibition efficiencies are critically evaluated for a set of 24 heterocyclic organic compounds, tested as corrosion inhibitors for copper in 3 wt.% NaCl aqueous solution. Twelve different molecular electronic descriptors...journal article 2021
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Tiringer, U. (author), van Dam, J.P.B. (author), Abrahami, S.T. (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Kovač, J. (author), Milošev, I. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)The sol-gel synthesis process is a versatile method used to produce a wide diversity of materials and is being increasingly used as a surface modification method to alter porosity, wettability, catalytic activity, biocompatibility and corrosion performance of underlying substrates. Silane sol–gel films deposited on aluminium and aluminium...review 2021
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Kosari, A. (author), Tichelaar, F.D. (author), Visser, P. (author), Taheri, P. (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)Lithium salts have been proposed as promising environmentally friendly alternatives to carcinogenic hexavalent chromium-based inhibitors for the corrosion protection of aerospace aluminium alloys (AAs). Incorporated into organic coatings, lithium salts are released at damaged locations to establish a conversion layer in which distinct...journal article 2021
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Kosari, A. (author), Tichelaar, F.D. (author), Visser, P. (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)Lithium leaching coatings have recently been developed as eco-friendly active corrosion protection technology for aerospace aluminium alloys (AAs) by the formation of a conversion layer at coating defects. While general conversion layer formation characteristics were studied and reported before, here we study the local layer formation process...journal article 2021
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Putra, N.E. (author), Leeflang, M.A. (author), Taheri, P. (author), Fratila-Apachitei, E.L. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Zhou, J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Additively manufactured biodegradable porous iron has been only very recently demonstrated. Two major limitations of such a biomaterial are very low biodegradability and incompatibility with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Here, we present a novel biomaterial that resolves both of those limitations. We used extrusion-based 3D printing to...journal article 2021
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Chen, Guangmeng (author), Wen, Shifeng (author), Ma, Jiacheng (author), Sun, Zhiyong (author), Lin, Cunguo (author), Yue, Zhufeng (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Liu, M. (author)Multifunctional intrinsic self-healing polymers (ISP) are gaining increasing attention these days, and many studies have been devoted to solving the conflict between achieving high mechanical polymer strength and active polymer chain diffusion. In this research, we developed an optimized self-healing composite coating by adding Benzotriazole ...journal article 2021
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Kosari, A. (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author), Tichelaar, F.D. (author), Visser, P. (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)Liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (LP-TEM) has provided corrosion scientists with a unique opportunity to directly correlate nanoscopic morphological and compositional evolutions to the corresponding electrochemical response of corroding thin TEM specimens. Electrochemical liquid cell designs are key components of a LP-TEM study...journal article 2021
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Li, Z. (author), Chang, Weiwei (author), Cui, Tianyu (author), Xu, Dake (author), Zhang, Dawei (author), Lou, Yuntian (author), Qian, Hongchang (author), Song, Hao (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Cao, Fahe (author), Gu, Tingyue (author), Li, Xiaogang (author)Microbiologically influenced corrosion of metals is prevalent in both natural and industrial environments, causing enormous structural damage and economic loss. Exactly how microbes influence corrosion remains controversial. Here, we show that the pitting corrosion of stainless steel is accelerated in the presence of Shewanella oneidensis MR...journal article 2021
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Dong, J. (author), Tümer, N. (author), Putra, N.E. (author), Zhu, Jia-Ning (author), Li, Y. (author), Leeflang, M.A. (author), Taheri, P. (author), Fratila-Apachitei, E.L. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author), Zhou, J. (author)Additively manufactured (AM) biodegradable magnesium (Mg) scaffolds with precisely controlled and fully interconnected porous structures offer unprecedented potential as temporary bone substitutes and for bone regeneration in critical-sized bone defects. However, current attempts to apply AM techniques, mainly powder bed fusion AM, for the...journal article 2021
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Ma, Lingwei (author), Wang, Jinke (author), Zhang, D. (author), Huang, Yao (author), Huang, Luyao (author), Wang, Panjun (author), Qian, Hongchang (author), Li, Xiaogang (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)This work introduces a novel nanocomposite coating with dual-action self-healing corrosion protection activated by the photothermal response of plasmonic titanium nitride nanoparticles (TiN NPs). TiN@mesoporous SiO<sub>2</sub> core–shell nanocontainers were developed as reservoirs for benzotriazole (BTA) corrosion inhibitors and incorporated...journal article 2021
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del Olmo, R. (author), Tiringer, U. (author), Milošev, I. (author), Visser, P. (author), Arrabal, R. (author), Matykina, E. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)The effect of the presence of an anodic film and hybrid sol-gel coating loaded with corrosion inhibitors was evaluated as a strategy for enhanced barrier and active corrosion protection of aluminium alloy 2024-T3. In this study, AA2024-T3 specimens were anodized in a modified sulphuric-citric acid bath (SCA) as the first layer of a corrosion...journal article 2021
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Wu, Dequan (author), Ma, Lingwei (author), Liu, Bei (author), Zhang, Dawei (author), Minhas, Badar (author), Qian, Hongchang (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)This study investigated the deterioration of a lubricant-infused anodic aluminium oxide surface in a 1 M NaCl solution for ∼200 days. Direct observation by cryo-SEM and quantitative analyses by UV spectroscopy and EIS revealed that the long-term deterioration of the lubricant-infused surface was divided into two stages: the surface-adhered...journal article 2021