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Synergistic effect of graphene oxide and cathodic protection to enhance the long-term protective performance of organic coatings

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Graphite oxide (GO)-based organic coating and cathodic protection are effective methods for improving the service life of metals in the marine environment. However, few kinds of researches focus on long-term protective performance for coatings combined with cathodic protection potential and GO do**. In this work, the protective effects of epoxy (EP) coatings with different charge characteristics of GO addition and cathodic protection potential were compared and analyzed, and it is proposed that the accumulation of negative charges in cathodic protection would further enhance the electrostatic repulsive force of negatively charged GO against corrosive media. The long-term protective properties are systematically analyzed by EIS, Cl− diffusion analysis, and corrosion product observation. The GO/EP composite coating combined with − 1.2 V (vs. SCE) negative cathodic protection potential performed the biggest capacitance arc radius, the lowest Cl− diffusion coefficient, and no corrosion trace. The low-frequency impedance value increased from 1.5 × 108 Ω·cm2 to 3 × 108 Ω·cm2 in 60 days test period. In addition, the corrosion inhibition mechanism of the synergistic of GO nanosheet and negative cathodic protection potential on EP coating was revealed. This research result performs important reference significance for the application of GO material in the field of marine anti-corrosion engineering.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation Joint Fund (U2106226), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42076039, 51972290), the Key Technology Research and Development Program of Shandong province (2020CXGC010703).

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SC supervised the work, provided resources and raised external funding support. TS carried out the synthesis, characterization, data analysis and writing (original-draft). KJ provided conceptualization and writing (reviewing and editing). TW provided finite element models and analysis. WW and WL performed writing (reviewing and editing). HG and LS carried out the data curation.

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Sun, T., **, K., Wang, T. et al. Synergistic effect of graphene oxide and cathodic protection to enhance the long-term protective performance of organic coatings. J Mater Sci 58, 10853–10869 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-023-08701-2

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