Research Article
Corrosion Monitoring of Flexible Metallic Substrates for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Table 2
Summary of corrosion performance for a range of metal substrates determined using time-lapse photographic analysis (up to 1000 hrs).
| | Metal type (0.05 M I2 + 0.5 M LiI in MPN) | Time to complete removal (h) |
| | Titanium | — | | Iron 99.5% | 2 | | Stainless steel (316 and 304) | — | | Zinc 99.9% | 0.03 | | Aluminium 99.0% | — | | Aluminium 99.0% surface activation | 30 | | Aluminium 99.999% surface activation | ~200 | | Nickel 99.98% | ~65 | | Inconel (625) | — | | Tungsten 99.95% | — | | Molybdenum 99.9% | — | | Chromium 99.95% | — |
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