ABSTRACT
Functional or smart coatings (organic, inorganic, or hybrid) are formed by materials that can be adapted for many applications where they should be able to perform a well-defined set of functions, such as improving chemical, mechanical, electrical, and magnetic properties of the substrate. This project studied the anticorrosive efficiency of nanoaditivated pigment-free epoxy coating by the addition of rGOL in the contents of 0.1 and 0.5 wt%. XRD, AFM, FTIR, and Raman spectroscopies were employed to obtain relevant information on the molecular structure and interaction between epoxy resin and rGOL. Thermogravimetry results did not indicate a significant change in polymer matrix Tg. This could be related to an incomplete curing process of the resin and/or the presence of defects in the rGOL sample. All the corrosion tests results indicated that the rGOL addition promotes improvements to the epoxy corrosion resistance reached by a barrier mechanism.
Acknowledgments
Nanotechnology Laboratory (LAB N-TECH) at the University of Brasília – UNB;
Laboratório de Difração de Raios-X e análises térmicas –PUC-RIO;
CAPLH – PUC-RIO;
FAPERJ – Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Edital E_01/2019 – 242665);
CENPES (Leopoldo Américo Miguez de Mello Research and Development Center of Petrobras) in partnership with the Anticorrosive Coatings laboratory;
CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.
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