This volume provides the fundamentals and most recent information on Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) in one authoritative resource. The authors explain how PEO has attracted significant research attention in the last decade as a potential industrial method for surface engineering of metals and alloys in various application domains. It further documents their advantages in producing thicker and more effective coatings over conventional industrial anodization processes and that PEO coatings can be used as anticorrosion and anti-wear coatings, thermal barrier layers and catalytic layers. The book is divided into four sections addressing fundamentals, growth mechanisms, effects of particles, and industrial applications. Promoting maximum understanding of the fundamentals of the PEO process as essential to developing more competitive surface technologies, the book is ideal for a range of engineers and fabricators working in metals and alloys, surface modification, corrosion, electrochemistry, materials chemistry, and nanotechnology.
Plasma electrolytic oxidation: Fundamentals.- PEO by AC, DC and pulsed
DC Advantages, challenges and effects of electrolyte/electrode parameters
.- Mechanistic aspects of PEO from the perspective of sparking discharge
regimes and the role of soft sparking..- Unconventional PEO approaches
(two-step PEO, laser-assisted PEO, ionic liquid / molten salt-assisted PEO,
Cathodic PEO etc.).- Effect of PEO on the mechanical properties of various
metallic substrates (including fracture behaviours of PEO coatings).- Growth
mechanism of PEO on valve metals (Al, Ti and Mg).- Growth mechanism of PEO on
non-valve metals.- Growth mechanism of PEO on metal-matrix composites.- The
colouring mechanism of PEO films .- Computational modelling studies on PEO .-
PEO composite coatings with enhanced corrosion and wear resistance via
particles incorporation.- Functionalization of PEO coatings via particles
addition.- PEO coatings containing nanocarbons.- Biomedical PEO composite
coatings (calcium phosphate, bioceramics etc.) .- Advances in anti-corrosion
PEO coatings for light-weight materials (Al and Mg alloys).- Advances in
anti-wear PEO coatings for light-weight materials (Al and Mg alloys) .-
Advances in anti-corrosion and anti-wear PEO coatings for Ti and its alloys.-
Advances in anti-corrosion and anti-wear PEO coatings for steel and other
alloys.- High-temperature oxidation/hot corrosion of PEO coatings.- Active
corrosion protection coatings based on PEO (including multi-layer and
self-healing coatings).- PEO in photocatalysis and photoelectrochemical
catalysis.- PEO in chemical and electrochemical catalysis.- PEO in battery
applications (Li-ion battery, Li metal batteries etc.).- Post-treatment
sealing strategies for PEO coatings (organic and inorganic sealing-treatment,
hydrothermally treated PEO composite coating).
Dr. Viswanathan S. Saji is Research Scientist IIInterdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced MaterialsKing Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsDhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Mikhail Zheludkevich is Institute of Surface Science, Director
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Max-Planck Str. 1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
& Institute for Material Science, Professor
Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University
Kaiserstrasse 2, 24143 Kiel, Germany
