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Influence of mechanical deformation on the corrosion behavior of pure aluminum for Al-air battery

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It is vital to reveal the effect of microstructure features on the corrosion behavior of pure aluminum anode in alkaline electrolyte for Al-air batteries. In this paper, we extensively studied the influence of mechanical deformation on the corrosion microstructure and then corrosion features of pure aluminum anode. The results demonstrate that the cold-rolling deformation could facilitate the grain size refinement of pure aluminum. Surprisingly, the aluminum anodes with smaller grain sizes and larger grain boundary areas could effectively improve the corrosion resistance. The further characterization of the microstructure indicates that the deformation is capable of causing the fracture of the cathodic secondary phase precipitate clusters thus weakening the galvanic corrosion effects. The results of this paper could gain insights into the design and processing of pure aluminum for Al-air battery.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51771027, 51901018), Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technology (YESS, 2019QNRC001), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. FRF-AT-20-07, 06500119), the National Science and Technology Resources Investigation Program of China (Grant No. 2019FY101400), the Joint Funds of Southwest Technology and Engineering Research Institute (No. HDHDW5902020107).

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  1. Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Bowei Zhang, Hezu Wang, Wenguang Yang, Zequn Zhang, Zhibin Chen, Wei Xue & Junsheng Wu

  2. Southwest Institute of Technology and Engineering, Chongqing, 400039, China

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  3. National Center of Analysis and Testing for Nonferrous Metals and Electronic Materials, Guobiao (Beijing) Testing & Certification Co., Ltd., Beijing, 101407, China

    Xuelong Hao

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BZ: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing-original draft preparation and formal analysis. HW, YS and WY: Data curation, Formal analysis. ZZ, ZC, WX and YZ: Project administration and validation. XH: Reviewing. JW: Writing-reviewing, editing and supervision.

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Zhang, B., Wang, H., Su, Y. et al. Influence of mechanical deformation on the corrosion behavior of pure aluminum for Al-air battery. J Mater Sci 57, 14969–14978 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-022-07552-7

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