An Active Corrosion Inhibition Coating of Two Pack Epoxy Polyamide System using Halloysite Nanocontainer

Abstract

This work deals with encapsulation of corrosion inhibitor in inorganic nanocontainer and the investigation of the corrosion inhibition rate from the nanocontainer. Halloysite nanotubes were used as inorganic nanocontainer for encapsulating the active corrosion inhibitor. These cylindrical shaped halloysite nanotubes are a natural aluminosilicate, which possesses similar chemical composition as that of pure kaolin clay. The structural morphology and functional organic attachments to the halloysite nanocontainers were determined by using TEM and FTIR analysis. It is found that, halloysite nanocontainers are having external and internal lumen is in nanosize (diameter) and length up to several micrometers. A maximum benzotriazole loading up to 10% (by weight) was achieved in inorganic nanotube of 50 nm external diameters and lumen of 15 nm. The release of corrosion inhibitor was carried out for 18 h at different pH ranging from 3 to 10. The weight percent of the benzotriazole encapsulated halloysite nanocontainer was varied from 2 to 10 and then dispersed in 2K clear coat epoxy-polyamide. The self-healing anticorrosion performance of these nanocomposites coating was tested with help of electrochemical impendence spectroscopy (EIS) and Tafel plot. From Tafel plots it is found that the Icorr value decreases to 1.018E–7A/cm2 from 0.018 A/cm2, when coating was applied with 2 wt % nanocontainer.