Corrosion behaviour of electrodeposited nanocrystalline nickel-iron (NiFe) alloys in dilute H2SO4
By Monaco, Leo; Avramovic-Cingara, Gordana; Palumbo, Gino; Erb, Uwe
Published in Corrosion Science
2018
Abstract
Electrodeposited nanocrystalline and conventional polycrystalline NiFe alloys of similar iron content were investigated to understand the effect of grain size on the corrosion behaviour of these materials. Potentiodynamic polarization testing in 1N H2SO4 revealed similar active-passive-transpassive behaviour with negligible differences in the Tafel and transpassive regions regardless of grain size. It is shown that differences in the region of active dissolution are the result of strong contributions of sulfur impurities in the nanocrystalline electrodeposits rather than being due to grain size alone.