TY - GEN A1 - Müller, Thoralf T1 - Electropolishing (Book review) N2 - The book „Electropolishing“ by M. Buhlert is dealing with the electrolytic brightening, smoothing and deburring of technical materials like steel, copper, brass, aluminum, titanium and magnesium. The book content covers the basics and the main influencing parameters of the electropolishing process and provides detailed and application orientated procedure information for technical relevant materials. After a brief introduction into the topic of electrolytic polishing in the first chapter, the author gives a detailed description of the basic electrochemical reaction mechanisms in the second chapter. The reader will also be informed about the physical and chemical parameters, which control the electrochemical removal process. Additionally, the author reports about the advantages and disadvantages of electropolishing. The third chapter provides a detailed insight into the influencing manufacturing parameters affecting the results of the electropolishing process. Distinct aspects of the manufacturing e.g. workpiece preparation, electrolyte composition, polishing time, electrolyte temperature and alloy compositions will be discussed in detail by the author. In the fourth and fifth chapter, the author gives useful hints and information about the parameter variation and the suitable handling of hull cells for the optimization of the removal process, followed by a particular overview about material specific electrolyte mixtures for common-used technical metals and alloys, like steel, aluminum, brass, magnesium, copper and titanium. The sixth chapter of the book provides many selected manufacturing results and investigations on electropolishing of different metals and alloys, which allows the reader the opportunity to develop a systematic understanding of the topic and to adopt the knowledge on the optimization of his own electropolishing process. Finally, the book concludes with a brief chapter about some remarks with respect to the work safety and environmental efforts. In summary, this book contains a very detailed and clear arranged overview about the electropolishing method for the surface optimization process. For this reason, it is a suitable and useful lecture for people, which want to take an in depth look into the topic in order to start using this method or are interested in optimize their existing electropolishing processes. KW - Electropolishing KW - Manufacturing KW - Steel KW - Copper KW - Brass PY - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.201670054 SN - 0947-5117 SN - 0043-2822 SN - 1521-4176 VL - 67 IS - 5 SP - 554 PB - Wiley-VCH-Verlag GmbH & Co KGaA CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-39513 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -