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Effect of water vapor on high-temperature oxidation of NiAl alloy

Dingding Zhu, Xinli Wang, Jun Zhao, Jian Lu, Yichun Zhou, Canying Cai*, Jianyu Huang*, Guangwen Zhou*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The high-temperature oxidation of NiAl is studied with dry oxygen and water vapor. The oxidation in H2O results in a thicker Al2O3 oxide scale than that in O2. The oxide scale formed initially is a single layer of γ-Al2O3 that subsequently transforms into a α-Al2O3/γ-Al2O3 bilayer structure, in which the inner α-Al2O3 layer formed in H2O has a higher porosity than that in O2. Further density functional theory calculations show that H protons derived from H2O molecules penetrate into the oxide lattice and boost the formation of lattice vacancies in both α-Al2O3 and γ-Al2O3, thus enhancing the oxide scale growth.
Original languageEnglish
Article number108963
JournalCorrosion Science
Volume177
Online published28 Aug 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2020

Research Keywords

  • Density-functional theory (DFT)
  • H2O
  • High-temperature oxidation
  • NiAl
  • O2
  • Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

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