Shiyao Du, Feng Li, Flemming Bjerg Grumsen, Rajan Ambat, Ao Tang, Ying Li
{"title":"Effect of bias potential and dimension on electrochemical migration of capacitors for implantable devices","authors":"Shiyao Du, Feng Li, Flemming Bjerg Grumsen, Rajan Ambat, Ao Tang, Ying Li","doi":"10.1038/s41529-024-00440-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41529-024-00440-2","url":null,"abstract":"Dendrite formation induced by electrochemical migration (ECM) is a common reliability problem occurring on printed circuit boards (PCBs), which significantly threatens the long-term safe operations of current implantable electronic devices (IEDs). Although several factors (i.e., contaminations, humidity, temperature) are proved to be the parameters closely related to ECM susceptibility of capacitors on a PCB under climate environments, further targeted research under other environments still needs to be conducted as ECM is highly environmental-dependent. Herein, the effects of bias potential and pitch dimension on ECM sensitivity are systematically studied using various sizes of capacitors on a test PCB under a human implantation environment. The finite element method first proves that a DC voltage pattern could be regarded as an accelerated test compared to other waveforms. Subsequent chronoamperometry tests using the DC potential further indicate that dendrite formation is closely related to pitch dimension under low bias potential, while under high bias potential electric field is also the dominating factor of dendrite formation for capacitors on a PCB. Benefiting from the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) technique, the capacitor reliability under different corrosion states is also evaluated in a detailed manner. This work offers great value both in electronic corrosion mechanisms and future rational design for reliable IEDs.","PeriodicalId":19270,"journal":{"name":"npj Materials Degradation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41529-024-00440-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140024843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of plasma treatment on biodegradation of natural and synthetic fibers","authors":"Marzhan Nyssanbek, Natalya Kuzina, Valery Kondrashchenko, Abdugani Azimov","doi":"10.1038/s41529-024-00437-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41529-024-00437-x","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the application of plasma treatment as a means to enhance biodegradation and modify the structural characteristics of fibrous composites. The methodological component of the study includes the selection of the research object; production of composites; low-temperature plasma treatment, and treatment of biodegradability and mechanical strength of samples. The strengthening of fibers with cellulose leads to a significant improvement in mechanical strength. Such an indicator as mechanical strength increases from 18 to 21 MPa. Treatment of natural fibers with low-temperature plasma led to an increase in mechanical strength from 18 to 25 MPa. Treating reinforced fibers with low-temperature plasma currently results in an even greater enhancement in mechanical strength, increasing from 18 to 29 MPa.The electron microscopy of samples reveals some differences in cell wall microfibrils between plasma-treated and non-treated samples. The non-treated fibres are found to have chips and voids. Meantime, the plasma-treated fibres show structural changes in certain regions which resemble wood charring. Through a comprehensive analysis, this research underscores the substantial impact of plasma treatment on the degradation kinetics and morphological features of cellulose-based composites. The results reveal distinct alterations in the composition and behavior of plasma-treated fibres, signifying a shift towards enhanced biodegradability. The natural fibres examined in this study contained 28–30% lignin, whereas the composites exhibited a lower lignin content of 21–23%. These findings corroborate the inference that plasma treatment induces significant changes in fibre structure, accelerating the biodegradation process by 7 days.","PeriodicalId":19270,"journal":{"name":"npj Materials Degradation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41529-024-00437-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140016469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrodeposited graphene/layered double hydroxides micro/nanocontainers for both passive and active corrosion protection","authors":"Teng Xu, Qian-Yu Wang, Jin-Tao Zhang, Ji-Ming Hu","doi":"10.1038/s41529-024-00443-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41529-024-00443-z","url":null,"abstract":"The poor dispersibility of layered double hydroxides (LDHs) is considered to be the main drawback limiting their application in anti-corrosive coatings. In this work, the problem is solved by combining LDHs with graphene (Gr). A facile electrochemically assisted deposition technique (EAT) is developed to prepare Gr/LDH micro/nano-containers. The high-barrier Gr and LDHs synergistically build a ‘labyrinth effect’ to lengthen the diffusion path of corrosive mediums. Moreover, corrosion inhibitors can be released from the interlayer galleries of LDHs and impede corrosion of metal substrate by substituting the aggressive ions. Therefore, the polyvinyl butyral (PVB) coatings doped with Gr/LDH micro/nano-containers pre-loaded with inhibitors 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT) have both passive and active corrosion protection properties and provide excellent protection to copper substrate.","PeriodicalId":19270,"journal":{"name":"npj Materials Degradation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41529-024-00443-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139988285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Can Özkan, Lisa Sahlmann, Christian Feiler, Mikhail Zheludkevich, Sviatlana Lamaka, Parth Sewlikar, Agnieszka Kooijman, Peyman Taheri, Arjan Mol
{"title":"Laying the experimental foundation for corrosion inhibitor discovery through machine learning","authors":"Can Özkan, Lisa Sahlmann, Christian Feiler, Mikhail Zheludkevich, Sviatlana Lamaka, Parth Sewlikar, Agnieszka Kooijman, Peyman Taheri, Arjan Mol","doi":"10.1038/s41529-024-00435-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41529-024-00435-z","url":null,"abstract":"Creating durable, eco-friendly coatings for long-term corrosion protection requires innovative strategies to streamline design and development processes, conserve resources, and decrease maintenance costs. In this pursuit, machine learning emerges as a promising catalyst, despite the challenges presented by the scarcity of high-quality datasets in the field of corrosion inhibition research. To address this obstacle, we have created an extensive electrochemical library of around 80 inhibitor candidates. The electrochemical behaviour of inhibitor-exposed AA2024-T3 substrates was captured using linear polarisation resistance, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and potentiodynamic polarisation techniques at different exposure times to obtain the most comprehensive electrochemical picture of the corrosion inhibition over a 24-h period. The experimental results yield target parameters and additional input features that can be combined with computational descriptors to develop quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) models augmented by mechanistic input features.","PeriodicalId":19270,"journal":{"name":"npj Materials Degradation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41529-024-00435-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139915800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanisms and kinetic model for steel corrosion in unsaturated cementitious materials","authors":"Zushi Tian, Chuanqing Fu, Hailong Ye","doi":"10.1038/s41529-024-00441-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41529-024-00441-1","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the complex coupling of steel corrosion in partially saturated concrete filled with water, the quantitative description of control mechanisms is still under debate. This work provides new experimental evidence supporting that diffusion control (relative diffusion coefficient) is the dominant mechanism in controlling corrosion rate by limiting the ferrous ion migration in unsaturated concrete. Furthermore, a new mechanism-based kinetic model is developed to predict the corrosion rate in different cementitious materials and corrosion conditions. In addition, the proposed kinetic model can quantify the variation of critical [Cl−]/[OH−] with degree of saturation, classify corrosive conditions, and predict the electrical resistivity and corrosion rate relationships.","PeriodicalId":19270,"journal":{"name":"npj Materials Degradation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41529-024-00441-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139745131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
El Tayeb Bentria, Prathamesh Mahesh Shenai, Stefano Sanvito, Heesoo Park, Laurent Karim Béland, Nicholas Laycock, Fedwa El Mellouhi
{"title":"Computational demystification of iron carbonyls formation under syngas environment","authors":"El Tayeb Bentria, Prathamesh Mahesh Shenai, Stefano Sanvito, Heesoo Park, Laurent Karim Béland, Nicholas Laycock, Fedwa El Mellouhi","doi":"10.1038/s41529-024-00429-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41529-024-00429-x","url":null,"abstract":"Iron pentacarbonyl (IPC) gas forms upon the reaction of carbon monoxide with Fe containing metallic surfaces under gas reforming conditions. IPC formation can sometimes reach alarming levels that cause metal loss, pipeline thinning corrosion, catalyst poisoning, and contamination of sensitive industrial equipment. In this work, we demystify using multiscale computational modeling the mechanism of Iron pentacarbonyl formation: Density functional theory (DFT) is used to explore various catalytic reactions that involve a Fe adatom reacting with adsorbed carbon monoxide. Our calculated carbonyls desorption barriers on a perfect and clean Fe surface are too high to allow the carbonyls to form then desorb at temperatures <500 K at the rates reported experimentally. Most importantly, our calculations indicate that a high CO surface coverage, in addition to the presence of Fe adatoms, favors carbonyl formation and its desorption towards the flowing gas medium. Using insights extracted from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, we propose that the most plausible IPC formation mechanism consists of: (1) on surface reactions of adsorbed CO molecules with an Fe adatom to form iron tricarbonyl (Fe(CO)3*) molecules; (2) an adsorbate assisted movement of iron tricarbonyl on top of the CO adlayer; and (3) the interaction of iron tricarbonyl with CO molecules from the gaseous medium eventually leading to iron adatom removal as Fe(CO)5 gas.","PeriodicalId":19270,"journal":{"name":"npj Materials Degradation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41529-024-00429-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139745129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. K. Gattu, J. Obregon, W. L. Ebert, J. E. Indacochea
{"title":"Effects of open circuit immersion and vertex potential on potentiodynamic polarization scans of metallic biomaterials","authors":"V. K. Gattu, J. Obregon, W. L. Ebert, J. E. Indacochea","doi":"10.1038/s41529-023-00420-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41529-023-00420-y","url":null,"abstract":"Electrodes made of commercially pure titanium (CP-Ti) and a CoCrMo alloy are immersed at an open circuit in a phosphate buffer saline electrolyte at room temperature for different durations prior to electrochemical analyses. Open circuit potential measurements, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements, and cyclic potentiodynamic polarization (CPP) scans are used to assess the impact of the immersion time on derived property values. Stable passivation layers formed on both materials during immersion. The corrosion potentials determined from the anodic legs of CPP scans become more cathodic, and the corrosion currents decrease to lower values after longer immersion times. Measured currents indicate the layers formed on CP-Ti stabilize during forward anodic scans and persist to the vertex potential, whereas passivation breakdown occurs during anodic scans with CoCrMo with active corrosion at voltages up to the vertex potential. The characteristics of the return cathodic legs of CPP scans represent the surface conditions at the vertex potential: characteristic corrosion property values derived from the test responses represent passive surfaces on CP-Ti and leached surfaces on CoCrMo rather than intrinsic properties of those materials.","PeriodicalId":19270,"journal":{"name":"npj Materials Degradation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41529-023-00420-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139700692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of the aqueous corrosion induced alteration layer on mechanical properties of pharmaceutical glasses","authors":"Qiuju Zheng, Xinlin Ma, Youze Ma, Jiaxin Yu, Yuanzheng Yue, Hongtu He","doi":"10.1038/s41529-024-00431-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41529-024-00431-3","url":null,"abstract":"It is known that network modifying ions (such as alkali or alkaline earth ions) make glasses susceptible to aqueous corrosion, resulting in the alteration of their surface layers. However, the effect of the altered layers on the mechanical properties of glasses has not been well understood. In this work we study this effect using the pharmaceutical boroaluminosilicate (BAS) glasses as objects by performing nano- and macroscale mechanical tests. The results show that extending the corrosion time increases the thickness of the alteration layer of the BAS glass. The water-related species in the alteration layer lowers the nanohardness, the reduced modulus, the nanowear resistance and Vickers hardness. The corrosion-induced “silica-like” structure in alteration layer benefits the densification of the subsurface caused by nanoindentation and nanowear, and thereby enhances the fracture toughness of the BAS glass. The correlation between the water content in the alteration layer and the mechanical properties has been revealed. This work is instrumental in the design of the next generation of pharmaceutical glasses with higher toughness.","PeriodicalId":19270,"journal":{"name":"npj Materials Degradation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41529-024-00431-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139667715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jianqi Xi, Hongliang Zhang, Ranran Su, Shuguang Wei, Xuanxin Hu, Benoit Queylat, Taeho Kim, Adrien Couet, Izabela Szlufarska
{"title":"Coupling of radiation and grain boundary corrosion in SiC","authors":"Jianqi Xi, Hongliang Zhang, Ranran Su, Shuguang Wei, Xuanxin Hu, Benoit Queylat, Taeho Kim, Adrien Couet, Izabela Szlufarska","doi":"10.1038/s41529-024-00436-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41529-024-00436-y","url":null,"abstract":"Radiation and corrosion can be coupled to each other in non-trivial ways and such coupling is of critical importance for the performance of materials in extreme environments. However, it has been rarely studied in ceramics and therefore it is not well understood to what extent these two phenomena are coupled and by what mechanisms. Here, we discover that radiation-induced chemical changes at grain boundaries of ceramics can have a significant (and positive) impact on the corrosion resistance of these materials. Specifically, we demonstrate using a combination of experimental and simulation studies that segregation of C to grain boundaries of silicon carbide leads to improved corrosion resistance. Our results imply that tunning of stoichiometry at grain boundaries either through the sample preparation process or via radiation-induced segregation can provide an effective method for suppressing surface corrosion.","PeriodicalId":19270,"journal":{"name":"npj Materials Degradation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41529-024-00436-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139659438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yelin Ni, Tucker T. Bisel, Md Kamrul Hasan, Donghui Li, Witold K. Fuchs, Scott K. Cooley, Larry Nichols, Matt Pharr, Nathalie Dupuy, Sylvain R. A. Marque, Mark K. Murphy, Suresh D. Pillai, Samuel Dorey, Leonard S. Fifield
{"title":"Author Correction: Compatibility of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA)/ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH)/EVA films with gamma, electron-beam, and X-ray irradiation","authors":"Yelin Ni, Tucker T. Bisel, Md Kamrul Hasan, Donghui Li, Witold K. Fuchs, Scott K. Cooley, Larry Nichols, Matt Pharr, Nathalie Dupuy, Sylvain R. A. Marque, Mark K. Murphy, Suresh D. Pillai, Samuel Dorey, Leonard S. Fifield","doi":"10.1038/s41529-024-00433-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41529-024-00433-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19270,"journal":{"name":"npj Materials Degradation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41529-024-00433-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139643960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}