Effects of pretreatment on the aluminium etch pit formation

Corrosion Science

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1501-1505

  Lee, Jaekwang ^a   Kim, Jiyoung ^a   Kim, Jutae ^a   Lee, Junhee ^a   Chung, Hwayong ^a   Tak, Yongsug ^a  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

A. Aluminium; B. AFM; B. Polarization; B. SEM; C. Pitting Corrosion

Indexed keywords

A. ALUMINIUM; B. AFM; B. POLARIZATION; B. SEM; C. PITTING CORROSION;

ALUMINUM; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING; OXIDE FILMS; PITTING; POLARIZATION;

SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349133952     PISSN: 0010938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2009.02.028     Document Type: Article

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