Affiliation:
1. Laboratory of Electrochemistry and Environment (LEE) National Engineering School (ENIS) BPW University of Sfax 3038 Sfax Tunisia
2. Groupe de recherche en Génie des Procédés Agroalimentaires Laboratoire de recherche en Mécanique des Fluides Appliquée (LMFA) Génie des Procédés Environnement, E.N.I.S Université de Sfax BPW 3038 Sfax Tunisia
3. Research Laboratory of Environmental Sciences & Technologies Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ISSTE) Carthage University Ben Arous BPW 1003 Tunisia
4. Preparatory Institute for Engineering Studies of Sfax (IPEIS) University of Sfax BP 805, 3018 Sfax Tunisia
Abstract
AbstractThe present research work undertakes the investigation of preparation of the polystyrene‐block‐poly (ethylene‐ran‐butylene)‐block‐polystyrene triblock (SEBS) copolymer coating on a copper surface (Cu‐SEBS) following a well‐defined immersion protocol. The SEBS ratio, drying temperature (Temp), and drying time (time) are the factors for the determination of the immersion protocol of the Cu‐SEBS electrode's preparation. To evaluate the effects of these factors on the anticorrosive behaviour of copper in NaCl 3 % solution and to determine the best conditions to produce a protective SEBS film on the copper surface (low corrosion rate), we used the experimental design and the central composite design (CCD). The response surface methodology (RSM) was used in this study as an optimization method and the Statgraphics software was used to treat experimental design data. The corrosion rate of Cu‐SEBS at the different runs of the experimental matrix was measured by voltammetry around the open circuit potential (OCP) (ΔE=±50 mV vs SCE). The analysis of variance, the Pareto graph and the figure of the main and combined effect of the experimental factors show that the SEBS rate is the most significant factor. The linear effect of time and Temp, the quadratic effect of SEBS ratio, and the interaction between SEBS ratio and the drying temperature is, even though important, less significant. The optimized parameters were determined to obtain the lower corrosion rate, which was a 3.059 % of SEBS ratio, 70.18 °C of drying temperature, and 21 min of drying time. Then, to confirm the model, an electrochemical investigation of SEBS‐coated copper at optimal conditions of immersion protocol (Cu‐SEBS‐Opt‐Cond) was successfully applied in a 3 wt % NaCl aqueous solution. The corrosion rate of Cu‐SEBS‐Opt‐Cond was obtained by voltammetry around the open circuit potential (OCP) equal 0.00023 mm year−1 which is close to that found by the experimental design. The measures of voltammetry around OCP, cyclic voltammetric (CV), and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) showed that the Cu‐SEBS‐Opt‐Cond electrode exhibited more stability and a much higher corrosion resistance than that observed for bare copper.
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