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Atomic-Level Mechanisms of Magnesium Oxidation

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Magnesium has been recently becoming an increasingly popular material for various applications. However, excessive chemical reactivity, and oxidation rate in particular, is a major obstruction on the way of Mg to become widely adopted. A significant problem causing the lack of Mg reactivity control is insufficient understanding of mechanisms involved in the oxidation of magnesium surface.

Herewith we present the investigation of atomic-level mechanisms of oxidation initiation and propagation in pure Mg. Namely, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy at synchrotron Elettra was used as a surface sensitive direct method to determine the valence of Mg and O and the valence band states at the early stage of oxide formation over a principal, most densely packed, crystallographic plane (0001) in pure Mg. The mechanisms of oxygen adsorption on magnesium free surface followed by oxidation (i.e. initiation and kinetics of MgO formation) are clarified.

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  1. Materials Research Laboratory, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, SI-5000, Slovenia

    Sandra Gardonio, Mattia Fanetti & Matjaz Valant

  2. Division of Materials Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, LTH, Lund University, Lund, 223 63, Sweden

    Dmytro Orlov

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  1. Structural Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

    Alok Singh Ph.D. (Chief Researcher) (Chief Researcher)

  2. SEMTE, Arizona State University, USA

    Kiran Solanki Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering) (Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering)

  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, USA

    Michele V. Manuel Ph.D, B.S. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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    Neale R. Neelameggham (‘The Guru’) (‘The Guru’)

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Gardonio, S., Fanetti, M., Valant, M., Orlov, D. (2016). Atomic-Level Mechanisms of Magnesium Oxidation. In: Singh, A., Solanki, K., Manuel, M.V., Neelameggham, N.R. (eds) Magnesium Technology 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48114-2_16

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