Planejamento experimental no estudo eletroquímico de camadas de óxido de nióbio em liga de alumínio 3003 (Experimental design for electrochemistry study of niobium oxide layers in 3003 aluminum alloy)

The plating is an option that the metalworking industry has been found to increase the corrosion resistance of metal parts, but this coating is toxic to humans and to the environment. To achieve a new surface treatment the experimental design may be applied to optimize the experiments, especially when there are many variables to obtain at the final product or process. The main objective of this paper is to use experimental design to obtain a ceramic coating based on niobium oxide over 3003 aluminum alloys and to compare it to the Cr (III) coating, in the same metallic substrate. The techniques employed were anodic potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and mapping by energy dispersive spectroscopy. An experimental design 2 3