Enhanced corrosion resistance of die steel by depositing TiAlSiN coating through HiPIMS

Abstract

TiAlSiN coating deposited on carbon steel can improve the anti-wear and anti-corrosion performances. In present study, the film is fabricated on H13 die steel using the technique of high power impulse magnetron sputtering. Mutual diffusion of elements between the coating and substrate can be obviously found, which promotes the metallurgical bonding. The adhesion ability can be significantly enlarged by increasing the bias voltage, deposition temperature and time, with a growing amplitude of 62.4%. When considering the corrosion resistance after coating TiAlSiN, the corrosion current diminishes and the potential shifts to the positive side in the potentiodynamic polarization tests. The corrosion inhibition efficiency can reach 96.8% when setting the bias voltage, deposition temperature and film thickness as − 100 V, 550 °C and 3 μm, respectively. The significant corrosive protection is achieved by the formation of the passivation Al₂O₃ layer when dipping the as-deposited film in electrolyte.

Keywords

TiAlSiN / High power impulse magnetron sputtering / Adhesion / Corrosion

Decleration of Competing Interest

Guoqun Zhao is an associate editor for ChemPhysMater and was not involved in the editorial review or the decision to publish this article. The authors declare the following personal relationships which may be considered as competing interests: Tong Zhu and Jiachang Wang are currently employed by Qingdao Hisense Mould Co., Ltd.; Chuanying Wang is currently employed by Jier Machine-Tool Group Co., Ltd.; Qihua Ren and Wenming Wang are currently employed by Shandong Wenling Fine Forging Technology Co., Ltd. and Shandong Huifeng Transmission Co., Ltd.; Xiaokang Huang is currently employed by Fujian Nanping Aluminum Co., Ltd. Other authors declare that there are no competing interests.

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Jun Lin: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Project administration, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Tong Zhu: Resources. Hanxiao Luan: Writing – original draft, Data curation, Conceptualization. Yanjin Guan: Investigation, Conceptualization. Liang Chen: Software, Investigation, Conceptualization. Jiachang Wang: Resources, Methodology. Chuanying Wang: Resources. Qihua Ren: Resources, Project administration, Methodology. Wenming Wang: Validation, Resources, Project administration. Xiaokang Huang: Validation, Resources. Guoqun Zhao: Supervision, Project administration, Data curation.

Acknowledgements

This project is supported by Key R&D Program of Shandong Province (Grant No. 2024CXPT065 ), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52175340 ), Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. ZR2022YQ53 ).

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