Wire Electrochemical Etching of Superhydrophobic Nickel Surfaces with Enhanced Corrosion Protection.

ABSTRACT: Superhydrophobic nickel surfaces have significant advantages in the field of corrosion protection compared with traditional nickel corrosion protection methods which need a toxic chemical corrosion inhibitor. Electrochemical etching, an ideal method for fabricating superhydrophobic nickel surfaces, was also limited by low current density, resulting in low processing efficiency. To overcome this limitation, we proposed a new method to fabricate a superhydrophobic nickel surface using a wire electrochemical etching method. The wire electrochemical etching method accomplished the etching process by sweeping a controlled wire cathode across the surface of the anode nickel plate in an environmentally friendly neutral electrolyte, NaCl. The superhydrophobic nickel sample with a contact angle of

SUBMITTER: Wu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10706957 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature