Influence of mitosporic fungi upon zinc-polymeric coatings on steel under the different environment

Abstract

Zinc-polymeric coating samples were exposed to different environmental conditions (for 2 years): marine Á dunes on the shore of the Baltic Sea (Neringa), rural-agrarian district of Moletai and the industrial zone of Vilnius. During the whole period of the study 94 species of fungi, were isolated from the exposed samples of zinc-polymeric coating on steel. The zinc-polymeric coatings exposed to marine and rural-agrarian environments were deteriorated most markedly. A scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used to characterize the morphology of the surface. The phase composition of the zinc-polymeric coatings on the steel substrate was analysed by an X-ray diffractometer (XRD). The products formed on the zinc-polymeric coatings were detected by a Fourier transformation infrared spectrometer (FTIR). The effect of environmental conditions on the mass change of the samples was determined by the standard dissolution method. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Lugauskas, A.; Prosyčevas, I.; Narkevičius, A.; Selskienė, A.; Bučinskienė, D.; Ručinskienė, A.; Binkauskienė, E. 2013. Influence of mitosporic fungi upon zinc-polymeric coatings on steel under the different environment, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management 21(3): 199Á208. http://dx.

The mycological effect on morphological, electrochemical and redox properties of the polyaniline surface

“…The fungi (listed in Table 1) of different functional morphology from our culture collection were used during this study. [23][24][25] The fungi species were isolated from metal plates which were exposed at three climatic study ground of Lithuania (for 2 years): marine (M)dunes on the shore of the Baltic Sea (Neringa), rural-agrarian (R) -Kulionys village in the district of Moletai and the industrial (I) zone of Vilnius as described in. [25] The investigation sites were installed according to the requirements of ISO 8565:1992(E) standard.…”