Enhanced Anti‐Corrosion Performance of Carbon Steels via CeO₂@BNNSs/Epoxy Resin Composite Coatings

Abstract

Due to its excellent physical barrier behavior and high physicochemical stability, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) can improve the anti-corrosion capacity of a favorite protective coating onto metals. However, the poor dispersion of h-BN filler in the formation of polymer composites does not promote its further wide application in the field of corrosion protection. In this work, a new CeO 2 @BNNSs filler is highly dispersed into aqueous epoxy (EP) to make nice coatings onto steels. As a result, after immersing them into an NaCl solution of 3.5 wt% for 20 days, the as-prepared CeO 2 @BNNSs/EP composite coatings can keep an impedance modulus (|Z| f = 0.01 Hz ) value of 9.61 × 10 7 𝛀 cm 2 , which is larger than those of the blank EP and the EP filled with the h-BN and BNNSs fillers. In addition, compared to the EP, h-BN/EP, and BNNSs/EP coatings, the higher corrosion potential, the properties of larger polarization resistance, and lower corrosion current density for the CeO 2 @BNNSs/EP coatings indicate CeO 2 @BNNSs/EP's excellent protective ability to the steel from corrosion. It is believed that this kind of CeO 2 @BNNSs/EP composite materials and its coatings would be highly promising for application in future advanced anti-corrosion environments and devices.

MXene‐CeO2@PDA Synergistically Enhanced Anticorrosion of Waterborne Epoxy Coating

“…[21,22] CeO 2 , as an environmentally friendly particle with an excellent corrosion inhibition effect, has been largely applied as filler to improve the corrosion resistance of the resultant composite coating. [23][24][25][26] Wu et al [26] reported that the epoxy coating could achieve high corrosion protection performance over a long-term scale when incorporating CeO 2 grafting fluorinated reduced graphene oxide as nanofillers. Therefore, the coaddition of MXene and CeO 2 is expected to further promote the corrosion resistance of WEP-based composite coating.…”