Influence of Electrolyte Temperature on Morphology and Properties of Composite Anodic Film on Titanium Alloy Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al
, Zhi-Hui Xie 4, Lei Liu 1, Xu Dai 1, Gen Zhang 5, Wenhui Yao 1, Yu Li 2 and Fusheng Pan 1,3Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
A very well studied system and a well prepared manuscript. I believe that the authors have made an extensive characterization not only in the material but also in applications such as corrosion and tribology. I think the authors must respond in some questions based on their results and explain better some parts, like SEM, EDS and AFM (see pdf attached).
Also the authors show that temperature changes the final coating of the surfaces, but I did not find a clear explanation of why or how this is happening.
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Author Response
Response to Reviewer 1 Comments
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
I think that the manuscript (MS) cannot be published in the present form.
Some mistakes are present in the text.
In the following, some suggestions to improve the MS.
Pay attention to the MS template: figures and tables are extended words and the references are not in the suitable form.
I think that your film is deposited and not fabricated…
Abstract
Line 29: I think that discussed is more suitable than proposed.
Keywords: add PTFE nanoparticles
Introduction
Line 48: showed instead of shown
Line 51: please correct rolling
Lines 53-55: please reduce the repetition of friction
Line 66: …resulting in the occurrence…
Lines 63-70: please better rewrite these sentences.
Line 75: please write PTFE malic acid with and or – in between in the whole text.
Experimental
Table 1: titanium à Ti like the others
Section 2.1 and 2.2 must be joined.
Line 100: please put the correct ratio.
Line 101: mL/L
Line 124: rms, please explain here and not in the next section
Scheme 1 is actually Figure 1…
Results
Figure 11: please enlarge the words
Line 166: please clarify the caption of fig.1
Please enlarge fig2a
Line 254-268 please better describe all the physical quantities.
Conclusions
Please improve the quality and content of your conclusions.
Line 369: … anodizing IT in …
Line 375: please correct: the roughness of the surface…
Lines 376-378: please clarify the sentence
Lines 379-380: please rewrite the sentence
Best regards
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 2 Comments
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Reviewer 3 Report
The authors have introduced PTFE nanoparticles and malic acid solution to fabricate composite anodic substrate. This work can be interesting if the authors can explain why PFTE nanoparticles are introduced. For example, Figure 11 (with a typo of PFTE, please correct this) is very attractive and should move to the first part of this manuscript. All of figures show low resolution and are sometimes difficult to interpret. If the authors have introduced the table overview with EDS results, showing EDS spectra are useless. EDS spectra are unreadable. Please mention which signals (alpha, beta) and its keV values are used. The authors should also mentioned which suppliers were used for chemicals. Which solvent was introduced on line 94? And what do the authors mean with “warm air” ? How was the cross-sectional SEM images made?
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 3 Comments
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
I believe that the authors have improved a lot the manuscript and have prepared a high quality manuscript with well explained a lot of different methods. They have used a lot of different techniques for proving their results. Finally they have responded to my questions and helped me understand better their work. I believe that now the manuscript can be accepted for publication.
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
I think that the manuscript (MS) must be improved again.
Some mistakes are introduced in the text. There are English errors and some sentences completely unclear.
The references are still not in the suitable form.
Line 63-71: There are several English errors. Please correct.
Line 103: mL/L and not ml/L
Line 265: Why?????
Line 265-270: There is no clear meaning in these sentences. Please correct.
Best regards
Reviewer 3 Report
The authors have improved the manuscript based on the comments. They have briefly explained correct on my comments. This manuscript is suitable for a pubilcation in MDPI Coatings.
