Recent Achievements in Coatings Electroplating from Non-aqueous Electrolytes
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 6411
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Interests: electrochemistry; electroplating; electrocatalysis; noble-metals alloys; semiconductors synthesis
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Dear Colleagues,
Electrochemical synthesis for coatings and thin-film deposition is a popular research trend. The vast majority of galvanic alloys are synthesized from water baths of various compositions and in the presence of complexing substances.
In recent decades, great emphasis has been placed on developing ecological baths based on non-toxic complexing agents such as citrates, gluconates, tartrates, EDTA salts and glutamates. However, because their main component is water, these solutions are often characterized by limited efficiency caused by water’s narrow electrochemical stability window, i.e., the consumption of charge through the decomposition of water. Moreover, this phenomenon significantly limits the number of elements deposited by the cathodic reduction in the form of thin films and coatings. Using non-aqueous baths with a much wider electrolytic stability window may present a solution to this issue.
The most popular system in this category is high-temperature molten salts used in large-scale aluminium production. These types of electrolytes are classified as ionic liquids, which have been rapidly developed over the last two decades due largely to the use of lithium in the production of high-performance lithium-ion batteries.
This Special Issue aims to collect the most valuable and cutting-edge findings related to synthesizing coatings and thin films with various properties and applications that have been electrochemically deposited from non-aqueous electrolytes based on ionic liquids, alcohols, molten salts and other organic solvents.
Topics of interest include:
- Recent developments in multi-functional coating synthesis from organic/ inorganic electrolytes;
- Investigations of the metal ion complexing and electrolyte formation in non-aqueous systems;
- Electrochemical behaviour of different organic/inorganic solvents in the metal plating process;
- Novel binary/ternary / multi-elemental alloys electrodeposition from non-aqueous solutions and their characterization;
- Achievements in molten salt electrochemistry from the lab and industrial scale;
- Ionic liquids for electrochemistry—synthesis, characterization and application.
Dr. Dawid Kutyła
Dr. Michihisa Fukumoto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- non-aqueous solutions
- coatings’ electrodeposition
- ionic liquids
- molten salts
- inorganic electrolytes
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