Smart protective coatings with self‐sensing and active corrosion protection dual functionality from pH-sensitive calcium carbonate microcontainers

Tong Liu, Dawei Zhang*, Lingwei Ma, Yao Huang, Xiangping Hao, Herman Terryn, Arjan Mol, Xiaogang Li

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Abstract

Herein, we report the development of a self-sensing and active corrosion protection coating which incorporates pH-sensitive multilayer chitosan/alginate-covered CaCO3 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 indicator but also as an inhibitor. An epoxy coating doped with 5 wt% microcontainers exhibited improved corrosion performance and was capable of inhibiting corrosion spreading from the damaged area in a 3.5 wt% NaCl solution. The salt spray test showed that corrosion damage can be quickly detected by the appearance of a red color within 2 min.

Original languageEnglish
Article number110254
Number of pages15
JournalCorrosion Science
Volume200
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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Keywords

  • Active corrosion protection
  • Corrosion
  • Corrosion sensing
  • Microcontainers
  • Organic coatings

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