TY - JOUR A1 - Rosemann, P. A1 - Schmidt, J. A1 - Heyn, Andreas T1 - Short and long term degradation behaviour of Mg-1Ca magnesium alloys and protective coatings based on plasma-chemical oxidation and biodegradable polymer coating in synthetic body fluid N2 - The main problem limiting the application of magnesium alloys as biodegradable implant material is its high degradation rate. In order to slow down the corrosion rate an extrusion process and specific coating systems based on plasma-chemical oxidation (PCO) and organic dip coating with poly(ʟ-lactid-co-caprolacton) (PLLC) were applied on Mg–1Ca magnesium alloy. The additional PLLC coating is used to delay the start of substrate corrosion, while the purpose of the PCO coating is to decrease the substrate corrosion rate. The corrosion behaviour was investigated in synthetic body fluid (SBF) through measurement of the hydrogen evolution rate in long term tests and polarisation and electrochemical noise measurements in short term tests. The results showed significant differences between the cast and extruded alloys and a decrease of the corrosion rate due to corrosion product formation. The combination of both coating systems resulted in a significant delay of metal substrate corrosion and all coating systems showed good correlation between short and long term tests. The combination of the three investigation methods provides the possibility to gain more information about the degradation behaviour and break down of protective coatings. KW - Coatings KW - Corrosion KW - Electrochemical noise KW - Magnesium KW - Plasma-chemical oxidation PY - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.201206590 SN - 0947-5117 SN - 1521-4176 VL - 64 IS - 8 SP - 714 EP - 722 PB - Wiley-VCH Verl. CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-29074 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rosemann, P. A1 - Müller, Thoralf A1 - Babutzka, Martin A1 - Heyn, Andreas T1 - Influence of microstructure and surface treatment on the corrosion resistance of martensic stainless steels 1.4116, 1.4034, and 1.4021 N2 - In the last years, new approaches for the evaluation of the corrosion resistance of martensitic stainless steels were developed, which allow nearly non-destructive as well as short-term corrosion testing. This work analyzes the sensitive influence of microstructure and surface treatment on the corrosion resistance. The effect of alloy composition and microstructure, which is always present in addition to the influence of various surface treatments will be evaluated and discussed. The corrosion behavior was investigated with conventional evaluation of the pitting potential, electrochemical potentiodynamic reactivation (EPR), electrochemical noise (EN), and the 'KorroPad' (KP) technique. EPR provided information about the passivation ability and the extent of chromium content reduction due to chromium carbide precipitation in the microstructure. The use of EN and KP aims to detect the influence of different surface treatment parameters on the corrosion resistance in a nearly non-destructive way. Furthermore the results shall demonstrate the functionality and convenience of the short-term corrosion test methods EN and KP in order to gain more acceptance within the scientific community. The results will allow the extraction of surface treatment effects on the corrosion behavior of the martensitic stainless steels 1.4116, 1.4034, and 1.4021. KW - Corrosion resistance KW - Electrochemical noise KW - Martensitic stainless steel KW - Electrochemical potentiodynamic reactivation KW - KorroPad KW - EPR-Test KW - Heat treatment PY - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.201307276 SN - 0947-5117 SN - 1521-4176 VL - 66 IS - 1 SP - 45 EP - 53 PB - Wiley-VCH Verl. CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-32572 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -