Preparation and Properties of Cerium Dioxide-Graphene Oxide Hybrid Materials (CeO2-GO)/Epoxy Resin Anti-corrosive Composite Coating

doi:10.11901/1005.3093.2024.227

Chinese Journal of Materials Research

2025, Vol. 39

Issue (4): 259-271 DOI: 10.11901/1005.3093.2024.227

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Preparation and Properties of Cerium Dioxide-Graphene Oxide Hybrid Materials (CeO₂-GO)/Epoxy Resin Anti-corrosive Composite Coating

PENG Yihe¹, OU Baoli¹^,²^,³(

), PENG Yongjie¹, WEN Mieyi¹, CHENG Tianyu¹, CHEN Diming¹

^1.School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
^2.State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
^3.State Key Laboratory of Tribology in Advanced Equipment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

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PENG Yihe, OU Baoli, PENG Yongjie, WEN Mieyi, CHENG Tianyu, CHEN Diming. Preparation and Properties of Cerium Dioxide-Graphene Oxide Hybrid Materials (CeO₂-GO)/Epoxy Resin Anti-corrosive Composite Coating. Chinese Journal of Materials Research, 2025, 39(4): 259-271.

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In order to fabricate epoxy resin composite coating with superior long-term anti-corrosive properties, graphene oxide (GO) and cerium dioxide (CeO₂) nanoparticles were covalently modified with (3-Aminopropyl) triethoxysilane and 3-Glycidyloxypropyltrimethoxysilane, respectively. Subsequently, CeO₂ nanoparticles were anchored on the surface of GO through the reaction between -NH₂ and -C-O-C-, obtaining CeO₂-GO hybrid materials. Afterwards, the composite coating (CeO₂-GO)/EP was prepared via incorporating the prepared hybrid material with epoxy resin matrix. While the prepared CeO₂-GO hybrid materials and the composite coating (CeO₂-GO/E) P were characterized by means of FT-IR, XPS and SEM. The SEM images of the coating fracture morphology show that the CeO₂-GO hybrid material was uniformly dispersed in epoxy resin matrix. The results of water absorption and friction wear test manifest that the water absorption and friction coefficient of CeO₂-GO/EP coating are significantly lower than that of the pure epoxy resin coating. The potentiodynamic polarization curve and EIS test results indicate that the coating (CeO₂-GO/EP) with addition of 1.0%CeO₂-GO/EP has the lowest I_corr value (8.42 × 10^-13 A·cm^-2) and the higher E_corr value (-65 mV). After being immersed in 3.5% (mass fraction) NaCl solution for 60 d, the CeO₂-GO/EP coatings with mass fraction of 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5% and 2.0% CeO₂-GO still presented |Z|_{0.01 Hz} values 7.88 × 10⁹, 4.97 × 10⁹, 5.26 × 10⁹ and 7.41 × 10⁹ Ω·cm², respectively. It is 1000 times of the pure epoxy resin coating |Z|_{0.01 Hz} value 6.56 × 10⁶ Ω·cm². According to the various performance test results, the long-term anti-corrosion performance of CeO₂-GO/EP coatings may be ascribed to the dual active/passive anti-corrosion mechanism.

Key words: surface and interface in the materials cerium dioxide graphene oxide epoxy resin anti-corrosion coating

Received: 22 May 2024

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TQ174.75

Fund: National Natural Science Foundation of China(51775183);Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2025JJ70082);Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department(24A0335);Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(LSL-2410);State Key Laboratory of Tribology in Advanced Equipment, Tsinghua University(SKLTKF24B10)

Corresponding Authors: OU Baoli, Tel: 18711342880, E-mail: B.Ou@hnust.edu.cn

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Fig.1 Schematic diagram for the synthesis of CeO₂-GO

Fig.2 FT-IR spectra of f-GO, f-CeO₂ and CeO₂-GO

Fig.3 X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) survey spectra of f-GO, f-CeO₂ and CeO₂-GO (a) and Gaussian fitting results of the Si, N, and Ce core lines of CeO₂-GO (b~d)

Fig.4 SEM images of f-GO (a)_, CeO₂-GO (b, c) and EDS elemental distribution images of CeO₂-GO (d~i)

Fig.5 SEM images of fracture morphology (a) pure EP, (b) 0.5% f-GO/EP, (c) 0.5% CeO₂-GO/EP, (d) 1.0% CeO₂-GO/EP, (e) 1.5% CeO₂-GO/EP, (f) 2.0% CeO₂-GO/EP and EDS elemental distribution images of the 0.5% CeO₂-GO/EP coating (d~l)

Fig.6 Water absorption of different coating samples after immersion for different time

Fig.7 Coefficients of friction values of different coating samples

Fig.8 Potentiodynamic polarization curves of different coating samples after being immersed in 3.5%NaCl solution for 3 d

Table 1 Electrochemical kinetic parameters fitting results to the potentiodynamic polarization curves

Fig.9 Nyquist plot (a) and Bode plot (b) of different coating samples after being immersed in 3.5%NaCl solution for 3 d

Fig.10 Nyquist plots of different coating samples after being immersed in 3.5%NaCl solution for different time (a) Pure EP, (b) 0.5% f-GO/EP, (c) 0.5% CeO₂-GO/EP, (d) 1.0% CeO₂-GO/EP, (e) 1.5% CeO₂-GO/EP and (f) 2.0% CeO₂-GO/EP

Fig.11 Bode plots of different coating samples after being immersed in 3.5%NaCl solution for different time (a) Pure EP, (b) 0.5% f-GO/EP, (c) 0.5% CeO₂-GO/EP, (d) 1.0% CeO₂-GO/EP, (e) 1.5% CeO₂-GO/EP and (f) 2.0% CeO₂-GO/EP

Fig.12 Equivalent circuit models used for fitted EIS results during 3~30 d (a) and 45~60 d (b) of immersion

Fig.13 |Z|_{0.0 1Hz} (a) and R_ct (b) of the different coating samples over time during 60 d of immersion

Fig.14 Schematic representation of corrosion protection mechanism of Pure EP coating (a), f-GO/EP (b) and CeO₂-GO/EP coating (c)

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