👌 ✅ Un bel exemple de ce que peut faire Materia Nova, grâce à des équipements de pointe comme le ToF-SIMS, en termes d’analyses et de compréhension des performances d’une solution développée spécifiquement pour la protection contre la #corrosion. #solgel #coatings #anticorrosion IONTOF Sylvain Desprez
I'm delighted to share with you this paper which explains how our new ToF-SIMS from IONTOF available at Materia Nova was usefully used to analyze in detail the molecular interactions at the interface between a aluminum substrate and a sol gel based conversion layer. Even if ToF-SIMS is known as a powerful analysis technique providing precise molecular information on the first few nanometres of a material's surface, GCIB profiling gun allows analysing layers several tens of microns thick with nanometric resolution ! Here we show clearly the presence of SiOAl+ which originates from the interface and which characterizes the actual “conversion” of Al at the interface by the deposited layer. This result was the key to explain the anticorrosion performance of sol gel formulation from our patner Axcentive Group. Thanks to all team for this work Damien Cossement, Mireille Poelman, Emeline LACHERY, Arno Schut, Patrick KARPE 👉 https://lnkd.in/eQGUVrK5 You can also find a summary of this study here : 👉 https://lnkd.in/ez9P9-Pt #ToFSIMS #solgel #interface #conversion #coating #aluminum