Chemical properties of ion beam sputter coated metal tubes
Abstract
The inner walls of iron and aluminum tubes were coated with chromium and tantalum by means of conical sputter targets which were moved through the tube while they were bombarded with an argon ion beam. In electrochemical tests in corrosive aqueous solutions of buffered acetic acid and salt brine the coatings appeared well adhering and able to considerably reduce corrosion of the tubes.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B
- Pub Date:
- May 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0168-583X(97)00005-0
- Bibcode:
- 1997NIMPB.127..775E