Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 2017, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (6): 594-599.DOI: 10.1007/s40195-016-0524-9

Special Issue: 2017腐蚀虚拟专辑

• Orginal Article • Previous Articles    

Inhibition of Zinc Corrosion by Fucoidan in Natural Sea water

Cui Wang1,2, Jie Zhang2, Xiao-Lin Chen3, Bin Xiang1, Ji-Zhou Duan2, Bao-Rong Hou2   

  1. 1 College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China.
    2 Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Corrosion and Biofouling,Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
    3 Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Qingdao 266071, China
  • Received:2016-12-28 Revised:2016-12-28 Online:2017-06-30 Published:2017-08-25

Abstract:

Research on corrosion behaviour of zinc in natural sea water without and with fucoidan was carried out by potentiodynamic polarisation test and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The results revealed that fucoidan serves as a good inhibitor for zinc in sea water. Polarisation curves suggested that corrosion potential values shifted to the positive ones after adding inhibitor and fucoidan retards anodic reaction more. Thus, fucoidan can be acted as anodic inhibitor. EIS results showed two phenomena including a charge transfer and an adsorption film. The corrosion inhibition of fucoidan was further confirmed by the scanning electron microscope (SEM) and atomic force microscope (AFM) analysis. Langmuir’s adsorption isotherm was found the appropriate adsorption model.

Key words: Zinc, Polarisation, EIS, AFM, XRD, Anodic protection