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The susceptibility of stainless steels to pitting corrosion is an essential characteristic of these alloys, since this kind of phenomenon may affect the mechanical integrity of the material and consequently cause unexpected failures. In order to avoid or minimize this localized corrosion process it is possible to enhance the protective capacity of the passive layer from the stainless steels and one of the methods to obtain this result is the chemical passivation treatment. In this context, the effect of the passivation treatment with nitric acid on pitting corrosion resistance of the AISI 410 and 17–4 PH stainless steels in chloride containing media is investigated. For this, two surface conditions are studied for each material: ground and chemically passivated. The corrosion behavior is evaluated by cyclic polarization tests in 0.6 M NaCl and the morphology of pitting corrosion is characterized by optical microscopy. According to the results, the applied surface treatment causes an improvement on the pitting corrosion resistance of both stainless steels, and the greatest increase on pitting potential is obtained to the 17–4 PH stainless steel.

RESUMO Com o intuito de evitar ou minimizar a corrosão por pite dos aços inoxidáveis é possível aprimorar a capacidade protetiva da camada passiva dessas ligas, e um dos métodos para se obter esse resultado é o tratamento superficial de passivação química. Nesse contexto foi investigado o efeito do tratamento de passivação química com ácido nítrico na resistência à corrosão por pite e no acabamento superficial dos aços inoxidáveis ferrítico AISI 430 e austenítico AISI 316L em meio contendo cloreto. Para isso duas condições superficiais foram utilizadas para cada material: superfície lixada e superfície passivada quimicamente conforme a norma ASTM A967/967M. O acabamento superficial foi caracterizado pela avaliação da rugosidade média e análise visual por microscopia óptica. O comportamento frente à corrosão foi avaliado através de ensaios de polarização anódica cíclica em 0,6 M NaCl conforme norma ASTM G61 e a morfologia dos pites foi caracterizada por microscopia óptica. De acordo com os resultados, a resistência à corrosão por pite dos aços inoxidáveis AISI 430 e AISI 316L submetidos ao tratamento de passivação tiveram os potenciais de pite e de repassivação aumentados em relação ao valor obtido com a superfície lixada, ou seja, tiveram sua resistência à corrosão por pite melhorada.

Nanotexturing processes that focus on enhancing the bone-implant contact, such as electropolishing, have been proposed. The aim of this work was to evaluate the influence of Ti6Al4V surface morphology on human embryonic stem cell-derived mesenchymal progenitor (hESCs-MP) growth. Three surface treatments were used in this study: mechanically polished samples and two types of electropolished samples that were treated for 4 min and 12 min, respectively. The systems were characterized by atomic force microscopy, contact profilometry, X-ray diffraction, and wettability. Each system was submitted to a cell culture containing hESCs-MP cells for 14 days, and the resultant cell growth on each system was then evaluated. The results indicated that surfaces with higher nanometric and micrometric roughnesses experienced greater hESCs-MP cell growth in osteogenic media. The same behavior was not observed for cell growth in non-osteogenic media due to the absence of dexamethasone, which is responsible for controlling protein adsorption on the surface.