Download or read book Corrosion Protection of Steels by Coatings Containing Electrically Conductive Polymers written by Wei-Kang Lu and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anti-corrosion performance of conducting polymers coated on the mild steel and stainless steel samples which exposed to artificial brine and dilute hydrochloric acid was investigated. This work attempts to rationalize the observed corrosion processes in order to elucidate protection mechanisms from the view of a corrosion engineer. A systematic correlation between the inhibition performance of electrically conducting polymers and its electronic, molecular, and electrochemical properties was also established. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the electrochemical kinetic behavior of the oxidation of metal surfaces for the purpose of understanding the interfacial stability, oxidation response and porous film diffusion phenomena of oxidation films on metal surface. Several reaction models and revised corrosion principles are presented to discuss the protective properties of intrinsically conducting polymers from electrochemical macroscopic theories and microscopic molecular details.