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Slippery lubricant-infused intertwining superhydrophobic matrix: preparation and enhanced resistance against abiotic corrosion and microbiologically influenced corrosion

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The corrosion of carbon steel (CS) is a disastrous threat to artificial engineering in harsh environments, such as underground mines and seawater environments. Herein, we employed facile one-step electrodeposition to prepare a superhydrophobic intertwining structure on a CS surface in an effort to alleviate corrosion. Sophisticated characterization methods suggested that La tetradecanoate formed during the electrodeposition process via an electrochemical reduction reaction. Silicone lubricant acted as the insoluble phase and was infused into the superhydrophobic matrix to yield a biomimetic slippery lubricant-infused surface (LIS) due to the capillary effect from the superhydrophobic intertwining structure to the lubricant phase. Using natural seawater, salt spray and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) suspension as the harsh media, LIS shows excellent corrosion resistance to the underlying metal compared with bare CS and the superhydrophobic surface covering CS because the oil phase acts as a barrier to inhibit the penetration of corrosive species. For the LIS sample after seawater immersion for 20 d, the Icorr was approximately 2 orders of magnitude smaller than that of the bare CS. In addition, after a 5.0 wt% salt spray test for 20 d, the |Z|0.01 Hz of the LIS surface was ca. 3 orders of magnitude larger than that of CS. Furthermore, when immersed in an extremely harsh SRB suspension for 15 d, the |Z|0.01 Hz of LIS was ca. 3 orders of magnitude larger than that of bare CS because LIS can dually prohibit the bioattachment of SRB and avoid the penetration of the highly corrosive metabolite. Thus, the LIS was proven to have prominent anticorrosion properties in harsh corrosive environments.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (52074172) and Major Innovation Projects of Key R&D Program of Shandong Province (2019JZZY020808).

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  1. College of Safety and Environmental Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, People’s Republic of China

    Yinsha Wei, Yizhen Yu, Yunxiang Wang, Yuekun Jing, Hongge Gao, Bingzhi Li, Shugang Hu & Ri Qiu

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, People’s Republic of China

    Yibo Ouyang

  3. State Key Laboratory for Marine Corrosion and Protection, Luoyang Ship Material Research Institute, Qingdao, 266101, People’s Republic of China

    Yinsha Wei, Bingzhi Li, Ri Qiu & Guosheng Huang

  4. Institute of Yellow River Delta Earth Surface Processes and Ecological Integrity, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, People’s Republic of China

    Shugang Hu & Ri Qiu

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Wei, Y., Yu, Y., Wang, Y. et al. Slippery lubricant-infused intertwining superhydrophobic matrix: preparation and enhanced resistance against abiotic corrosion and microbiologically influenced corrosion. J Coat Technol Res 20, 647–660 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11998-022-00698-8

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