ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESS AND CORROSION LABORATORY
School for engineering - UFRGS
Metalurgy department

PUBLICATIONS:

Recent Publications:

V Cerveira, NF Lopes, LFP Dick Anomalous currents determined by SVET due to composition gradients on corroding Zn surfaces in 0.1 M NaCl, Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry - 2020 - Acesse o artigo
TV Machado, PA Dick, GH Knörnschild, LFP Dick, The effect of different carboxylic acids on the sulfuric acid anodizing of AA2024, Surface and Coatings Technology, Elsevier - 2020 - Acesse o artigo
RB Soares, WRC Campos, PL Gastelois, WAA Macedo, LFP Dick, VFC Lins, Electrochemical Properties of Passive Film Formed on Supermartensitic Stainless Steel in a Chloride Medium, Corrosion, NACE International - 2020 - Acesse o artigo
RB Soares, LFP Dick, SM Manhabosco, AP dos Santos, WRC Campos, JD Ardisson, VFC Lins, Metallurgical and Electrochemical characterization of a Supermartensitic Steel, Materials Research, ABM, ABC, ABPol - 2020 -
Acesse o artigo
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RESEARCH:

Area analyzed by SVET in the study of
aluminum and copper alloy precipitation.
  • Anodizing of metals for corrosion protection
    or for the fabrication of nano structured materials;

  • Protective coating;
  • Study of the Corrosion and Protection of Pipeline Steels Internal
    Corrosion of Pipeline steels;

  • Microcharacterization of Scales formed on Rolled Steels and Study of its
    Chemical and Mechanical Descaling;
Scanning electron microscopy
on fractured aluminum oxide
layer with crystallographic corrosion
in the matrix.



TEAM:

Professors and Researchers:

Prof. Dr.Ing. Luís Frederico P. Dick - Tel: (51) 3308 7537 - lfdick@ufrgs.br - Resumé
Prof. Dr.Ing. Gerhard Hans Knornschild - Tel: (51)3308 7536 - gerhard.hans@ufrgs.br - Resumé
Prof. Dr. Antonio Shigueaki Takimi - Tel: (51) 3308 7538 - antonio.takimi@gmail.com - Resumé

Phd Students:

MSc. Janine Rachel Viscardi - janine.viscardi@ufrgs.br
MSc. Thiago Vignoli Machado - thiago.vignoli@ufrgs.com
MSc. Vinicius Cerveira - vinicius.cerveira@ufrgs.br
MSc. Shirley Vanessa Navas Diaz - vanesa.navas@outlook.com

MSc Students:

Eng. Antônio Buaczik Júnior - antoniobuaczikjunior@gmail.com
Eng. Lucas Braga Souto - lucas.souto@ufrgs.br

Scientific Iniciation:

Eduardo Côrte Real Barbieri - eduardo.barbieri@ufrgs.br

FACILITIES:

Sample Preparation:
  • Laboratorial cold-rolling mill;
  • Optical microscope with digital image acquisition;
  • Cutting wheel with diamond blade;
  • Polishing and preparation equipment for Metallographic sample preparation facilitie;
  • Vacuum furnaces;
Electrochemical tests:
  • Hydrogen permeation cells;
  • Current-/voltage sources for anodizing (up to10A/600V);
  • Rotating ring-disk electrode assembly (RRDE);
  • Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Nanobalance(EQCN);
  • “Macrobalance” for simultaneous mass loss and potential measurements;
  • Electrochemical workstations.

Micro Análises:
  • SVET/SIET - Scanning Vibrating Electrode Technique / Scanning Ion-Selective Electrode Technique;
  • Electrochemical Capillary microcell;
  • Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM);
  • Raman Spectroscopy.

CONTACT US:

For projects and opportunities:

email: lfdick@ufrgs.br
Tel: (51) 3308 7537

Avaible opportunities:

Scientific Iniciation;

MSc research scholarship

Phd research scholarship;

Optical micrographs of the zinc corrosive process progression,
showing the nucleation of shallow pits and lateral
growth generating uniform corrosion.



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