Fundamental studies of passivity and passivity breakdown
Effects of minor alloying elements on passivity breakdown and of photo effects on the properties of passive films are under study, and electrochemical and photoelectrochemical techniques are being used to explore transport and kinetic properties of vacancies and charge carriers in films and at metal/film and film/solution interfaces. Point defect and solute/vacancy interaction models are being developed to account for distributions in critical voltage and induction time for passivity breakdown by incorporating thermodynamics of absorption of halide ions into surface oxygen vacancies, by invoking different mechanisms for cation vacancy generation at film/solution interface, by extending the models to passive films on metal substrates having variable cation oxidation states, and by deriving rate laws for growth of passive films in response to an imposed voltage perturbation.
- Research Organization:
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-91ER45461
- OSTI ID:
- 10187580
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/45461--1; ON: DE93002747
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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