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Vanja Fontenele Nunes, Manuel Pedro Fernandes Graça, Imen Hammami, Ana Fabíola Leite Almeida and Francisco Nivaldo Aguiar Freire
Electrophoretic deposition is a straightforward, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective technique for depositing and synthesizing nanomaterials, particularly nanofilms of semiconductors. Key parameters in electrophoresis include deposition time and...
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Rin Takada, Kota Hirasawa, Hideaki Takahashi and Makoto Chiba
Recently, new surface treatments for the corrosion protection of Al alloys by forming self-healing layers have attracted the attention of many researchers. The authors of this paper have previously developed self-healing polyurethane coatings with micro-...
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Caglar Erdogan and Geoffrey Swain
The robustness of the cathodic protection systems utilized for offshore wind monopile foundations depends on the surface condition of the steel as well as the environmental conditions. This study investigated how preexisting biofouling and corrosion prod...
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Jari Aromaa, Marko Kekkonen, Mehrdad Mousapour, Ari Jokilaakso and Mari Lundström
The aim of this study was to investigate the oxidation kinetics of copper at low temperatures (60 °C to 100 °C) in air by isothermal thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). The weight change in thermogravimetric tests show...
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Hyeon-Gyu Min, Dong-Joong Kang and Jun-Hyub Park
In this study, tensile and fatigue tests were performed and analyzed to evaluate an influence of fabrication method on mechanical characteristics of copper thin film which widely used in flexible printed circuit board (FPCB). In general, manufacturing me...
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Zeinab Abdel Hamid, Mona Hasan Gomaa, Sayed S. Abdel Rehim, Maamoun Abdel Hamid and Ahmed Ibrahim
Polyaniline (PANI) thin films incorporated with TiO2 or ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized via an electrochemical polymerization technique. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) was used to synthesize PANI from a strongly acidic medium (0.5 M H2SO4). The effects of di...
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Rui Liu, Yanyan Yuan, Hong Wang and Xi Guo
The adhesion strength between thin films has a significant effect on performance of micro-devices. It is introduced that the effects of three pre-treatment methods: acid, pulse reverse current and anodic current, on the adhesion performance of electrodep...
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Chuanbo Hu, Ying Li, Jiawei Zhang and Wenlong Huang
The purpose of this research was to study the structure and corrosion resistance of poly(o/m-toluidine)-SiC/zinc (Zn) bilayer coatings. Poly(o/m-toluidine) films, such as poly(o-toluidine) (POT) and poly(m-toluidine) (PMT), were chemically deposited on t...
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Walter Giurlani, Massimo Innocenti and Alessandro Lavacchi
Measuring the thickness and the composition of precious metal thin films is a challenging task. Currently, the available techniques for thickness measurements are either destructive or need heavy assumptions on the nature of the sample, relying on inform...
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Soon-Hyeok Jeon, Won-Ik Choi, Geun-Dong Song, Yeong-Ho Son and Do Haeng Hur
In this work, we investigated the effects of surface roughness and agitation on the morphology of magnetite films electrodeposited from alkaline Fe(III)-triethanolamine (TEA) solutions on carbon steel substrates. The surface roughness of the carbon steel...
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