In Situ Nanoscale Characterization of Water Penetration through Plasma Polymerized Coatings
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- Univ. of Akron, OH (United States)
- National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States); Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
- National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
The search continues for means of making quick determinations of the efficacy of a coating for protecting a metal surface against corrosion. One means of reducing the time scale needed to differentiate the performance of different coatings is to draw from nanoscale measurements inferences about macroscopic behavior. Here we connect observations of the penetration of water into plasma polymerized (PP) protective coatings and the character of the interface between the coating and an oxide-coated aluminum substrate or model oxide-coated silicon substrate to the macroscopically observable corrosion for those systems. A plasma polymerized film from hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO) monomer is taken as illustrative of a hydrophobic coating, while a PP film from maleic anhydride (MA) is used as a characteristically hydrophilic coating. The neutron reflectivity (NR) of films on silicon oxide coated substrates shows that water moves more readily through the hydrophilic PPMA film. Off-specular X-ray scattering indicates the PPMA film on aluminum is less conformal with the substrate than is the PPHMDSO film. Measurements with infraredvisible sum frequency generation spectroscopy (SFG), which probes the chemical nature of the interface, make clear that the chemical interactions between coating and aluminum oxide are disrupted by interfacial water. With this water penetration and interface disruption, macroscopic corrosion can occur much more rapidly. An Al panel coated with PP-MA corrodes after 1 day in salt spray, while a similarly thin (similar to 30 nm) PP-HMDSO coating protects an Al panel for a period on the order of one month.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. Department of Defense (DOD); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1476646
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1526001
- Journal Information:
- Langmuir, Vol. 34, Issue 33; ISSN 0743-7463
- Publisher:
- American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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