Abstract:Anticorrosion metals treatments using formulations containing derivatives of hexavalent chromium (Cr 6+) have been standard in the surface treatment industry for many decades. These treatments afford excellent corrosion protection, offer good base for paintings, are inexpensive and relatively easy to apply. Besides, they provide active protection to the substrate due to their selfhealing abilities. However, environmental and health restrictions, made more severe from the end of the eighties, require replacemen… Show more
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