Sol-gel pre-treatments and coatings are an important class of passive protective coatings, which can effectively prevent corrosion of various metallic substrates through adhesion improvement and barrier protection. Recently, sol-gel chemistry has been proposed as an appropriate method for implementation of self-healing functionality in coatings via extrinsic concepts. In this review we will analyze the most relevant existing works on self-healing sol-gel coatings, including new work done in the direction of implementing intrinsic healing capabilities to sol-gels. The development of active sol-gel coatings is due to the broad chemical versatility of precursors and low processing temperature of this type of chemistry.
Self-healing polymeric coatings aiming at smart and on-demand protection of metallic substrates have lately attracted considerable attention. In the present paper, the potential application of a dual network hybrid sol-gel polymer containing reversible tetrasulfide groups as a protective coating for the AA2024-T3 substrate is presented. Depending on the constituent ratio, the developed polymer exhibited a hydrophobic surface, high adhesion strength, and an effective long-term corrosion protection in 0.5 M NaCl solution. Upon thermal treatment, the healable hybrid sol-gel coating demonstrated full restoration of the barrier properties as well as recovery of the coating adhesion and surface properties (e.g., hydrophobicity and surface topology) necessary for lifetime extension of corrosion protective coatings. Excellent long-term barrier restoration of the coating was only obtained if the scratch width was less than the coating thickness.
In the present work we show the effect of the crosslinking degree on the mechanical and healing behaviour of a healable thermoset dual-network polymer using a fracture and rheology time-resolved analysis.
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