TY - JOUR A1 - Heyn, A. A1 - Müller, Thoralf A1 - Balzer, M. A1 - Fenker, M. A1 - Kappl, H. T1 - Corrosion protection mechanisms of TiMgN hard coatings on steel JF - IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering N2 - Hard coated steel components are used in a wide application range, mostly for protective, wear resistant and decorative purposes. Despite of these coatings being regarded as relatively dense, there is always a high risk of localized corrosion when a coated low alloyed steel component encounters a surrounding high humidity atmosphere or even an aqueous medium. An approach to enhance the corrosion properties is the addition of magnesium to physical vapor deposited hard coatings, like TiN. It has been found that there is a remarkable increase in corrosion resistance in dependence of magnesium content of the TiMgN coating and its surface properties. In this work the authors will explain the underlying corrosion protection mechanisms by means of electrochemical and analytical studies. The positive impact of magnesium in the coating relates on its preferred dissolution vs. steel. This causes the potential to shift to more negative direction with respect to the steel substrate and additionally leads to a temporarily passivation of the steel due to alkalization of the surrounding electrolyte by formation of magnesium hydroxide. T2 - 20. Werkstofftechnisches Kolloquium CY - Chemnitz, Germany DA - 14.03.2018 KW - Corrosion KW - Titanium nitride KW - PVD hard coating KW - magnesium PY - 2018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-457117 DO - https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/373/1/012009 SN - 1757-8981 VL - 373 IS - 1 SP - 012009, 1 EP - 10 PB - IOP Publishing Ltd AN - OPUS4-45711 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -