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Electrochemical recycling of cell phone Li-ion batteries: application as corrosion protector of AISI 430 stainless steel in artificial seawater

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This article aims to present a new alternative to waste management of spent Li-ion batteries from cell phones. In this sense, the proposed is recycling the cobalt from Li-ion cathode by electrodeposition and apply it as corrosion protector of AISI 430 stainless steel. Thus, two greatest environmental problems can be solved, producing a low-cost and high-corrosion-resistant stainless steel. The cobalt electrodeposition bath came from acid dissolution of spent Li-ion cathode with chemical formula LiCoO2. The charge efficiency for cobalt electrodeposition in −1.0 V and pH = 3 reaches 95 %. A protective layer of Co3O4 was successfully obtained by treatment of AISI 430 stainless steel with cobalt electrodeposited at 800 °C for 200 h in air atmosphere. The corrosion current of AISI 430 stainless steel in artificial seawater was reduced from 30 to 0.76 μA cm−2. The treatment proposed produces a AISI 430 stainless steel with double of corrosion resistance and half of cost if compared with AISI 304 stainless steel.

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Acknowledgments

This work is a collaboration research project of members of the Rede Mineira de Química (RQ-MG) supported by FAPEMIG (Project CEX-RED-00010-14) and it was supported by CNPq. The authors wish to thank the Micrograph Laboratory of the Mechanical Engineering Department/UFSJ for the microscopy analysis.

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  1. University of São João Del Rei-Sete Lagoas Campus/DECEB, MG 424-Km 45, Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, 35701-970, Brazil

    Eric M. Garcia, Hosane A. Taroco & Sicele L. A. Gonçalves

  2. Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 6627, Brazil

    Rozana Z. Domingues & Tulio Matencio

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Garcia, E.M., Taroco, H.A., Domingues, R.Z. et al. Electrochemical recycling of cell phone Li-ion batteries: application as corrosion protector of AISI 430 stainless steel in artificial seawater. Ionics 22, 735–741 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-016-1691-4

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