Local scanning electrochemical microscopy analysis of a lithium-based conversion layer on AA2024-T3 at progressive stages of formation
Ziyu Li (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
Gaojie Li (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
Peter Visser (Akzo Nobel)
Axel Homborg (Netherlands Defence Academy, TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
Yaiza Gonzalez-Garcia (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
Arjan Mol (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)
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Abstract
Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) is employed to characterize the evolution of local electrochemical surface activity during lithium-based conversion layer formation on legacy aerospace aluminium alloy AA2024-T3. Initially, three types of studied intermetallic particles - S-, θ- and constituent phases - act as active cathodic areas. Subsequently, θ- and constituent phases show passivation preceding that of S-phase particles during the later conversion layer formation stages. The entire surface, including the matrix region, shows a higher reactivity at the beginning and then gradually shows decreasing reactivity. Hydrogen evolution-generated bubbles attach to the alloy surface and locally hinder the conversion layer formation, weakening the corrosion protection the conversion layer provides at those locations.
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