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Improved passivation and anticorrosion behaviors of selective laser melted Inconel 718 alloy in acidic solutions

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The electrochemical behaviors of Inconel 718 alloy prepared by selective laser melting (SLM) were investigated and compared with commercial rolled counterpart in 0.05 mol/L H2SO4 solution. For this purpose, open circuit potential (OCP), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), potentiodynamic polarization, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses were performed. The corrosion resistance of selective laser melted (SLMed) Inconel 718 alloy is superior to that of the rolled counterpart, which can be attributed to the difference in the microstructure and the chemical compositions of the passive film. The SLMed 718 alloy suffers from severely localized corrosion due to the micro-galvanic corrosion induced by the Laves phase. Furthermore, compared with the rolled counterpart, the passive film formed on SLMed 718 alloy has more content of Cr2O3 and less content of NiO. The significance of this study laid in the understanding of the corrosion behavior of Inconel 718 alloy prepared by SLM. These findings aided in the development of strategies to further enhance the corrosion resistance and overall performance of this alloy in various applications.

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We express our gratitude to the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52001142 and 51975263), the financial support from Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number (PNURSP2023R18), Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212100, China

    Yanxin Qiao, Wentao Zhang, **nwang Shen & Wen Liu

  2. Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh, 11671, Saudi Arabia

    Najla AlMasoud & Taghrid S. Alomar

  3. College & Hospital of Stomatology, Key Lab. of Oral Diseases Research of Anhui Province, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China

    Shunli Zheng

  4. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, 11884, Egypt

    Zeinhom M. El-Bahy

  5. Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia

    Mohamed M. Ibrahim

  6. Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Najran University, Najran, 11001, Saudi Arabia

    Hassan Algadi

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Yanxin Qiao supervised the project; Wentao Zhang and **nwang shen: material preparation and characterization analysis; **nwang Shen and Yanxin Qiao designed the experiments; Wentao Zhang, Taghrid S. Alomar and Wen Liu: data plotting and scientific drawing; Yanxin Qiao, Najla AlMasoud and Hassan Algadi: review and editing and supervision; Shunli Zheng, Mohamed H. Helal, Zeinhom M. El-Bahy and Mohamed M. Ibrahim: resources, writing—review and editing, and data curation. All authors discussed experiments and results. All authors have given approval for the final version of the manuscript.

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Qiao, Y., Zhang, W., AlMasoud, N. et al. Improved passivation and anticorrosion behaviors of selective laser melted Inconel 718 alloy in acidic solutions. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 6, 204 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42114-023-00786-2

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