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A high-performance waterborne polymeric composite coating with long-term anti-corrosive property based on phosphorylation of chitosan-functionalized Ti3C2Tx MXene

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As a newly discovered two-dimensional (2D) material, MXene has attracted much attention because of its fascinating physicochemical properties. However, the issue of agglomeration has limited its application in anti-corrosive polymeric coatings. Herein, a novel nanofiller, phosphoric acid-modified chitosan (mCS)-functionalized MXene (fMX), has been successfully constructed and used to endow waterborne epoxy (WEP) coatings with brilliant corrosive resistance. Electrochemical results demonstrate that the |Z0.01 Hz| value for 0.2 wt% fMX/WEP composite coating (4.73 × 107 Ω cm2) is more than two orders of magnitude higher than that of the blank WEP (2.09 × 105 Ω cm2) and the corrosion current density value of 0.2 wt% fMX/WEP maintains above 5.44 × 10−9 A/cm2 after soaking in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution for 50 days. It is nearly two orders lower than that of blank WEP (5.23 × 10−7 A/cm2). Thus, this novel mCS-functionalized MXene can serve as an effective composite nanofiller for preparing MXene-based high-performance anti-corrosive coatings.

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Phosphorylated chitosan-functionalized MXene (fMX)-based polymeric composite coatings have excellent long-term anti-corrosive property.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51908031 and 52003111). X. S. acknowledges the support from the Research Fund Program of Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Green Chemical Product Technology (Grant No. GC202110). Y. C. acknowledges the support from Guangdong Special Support Program (Grant No. 2017TX04N371). J. H. acknowledges the support from the Opening Project of Key Laboratory of Polymer Processing Engineering (South China University of Technology), Ministry of Education (Grant No. KFKT2001).

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    Xiaoling He, Sihao Li, Rongbiao Shen, Yanqi Ma, Li Zhang, Xinxin Sheng, Ying Chen & Jintao Huang

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He, X., Li, S., Shen, R. et al. A high-performance waterborne polymeric composite coating with long-term anti-corrosive property based on phosphorylation of chitosan-functionalized Ti3C2Tx MXene. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 5, 1699–1711 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42114-021-00392-0

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