Corrosion
sensing is essential to monitor and safeguard materials’
health in molten salts. The present study developed a three-electrode-array
minisensor for high-temperature molten salt corrosion monitoring.
By using the developed sensor, the impurity-driven corrosion of T91
by a fission product, europium, in the LiCl–KCl eutectic molten
salt has been studied. The developed minisensor was validated to be
an ideal probe for in situ corrosion monitoring in the high-temperature
molten salt via the comparisons on concentrations of the dissolved
corrosion products detected using this device and inductively coupled
plasma mass spectroscopy. To analyze the large volume of data measured
using the minisensor during in situ corrosion experiments, an algorithm
has been developed to achieve the high-throughput data analysis. The
well-designed minisensor can be potentially used for high-throughput
corrosion experiments. Combined with the developed algorithm for high-throughput
analysis, this study provided a platform to explore the application
of electrochemical sensors for the in situ corrosion monitoring of
materials in high-throughput molten-salt corrosion experiments.