Aplicação da polianilina contendo nanopartículas de zinco em revestimentos de carrocerias automotivas

Abstract

The protection against corrosion in the automotive industry is a high impact problem on the economic view. Besides of an antirust characteristic, the coatings used in the automotive industries needs to have a good appearance and phisical resistance. The multilayer coatings used normally are compound of e-coat, primer, base and clear coat, where the primer can also be used as an e-coat substitute in rework processes. In the other side, the conductive polymers has been widely discussed as an anti-rust coating material and the Polyaniline-zinc composite (PZn) had presented good results concerning the corrosion protection. Then, this study had applied the PZn in a multilayer coating used in the automotive industry, substituting the commercial primer in a common rework process. In addition, the PZn results were compared with the commercial primers used currently (FLASH and GLASURIT). To the material characterization, were done a MEV and EDS analysis of the substrate and were measured the coating thickness of the painted sets. To determinate the visual characteristics, were measured color, gloss and aspect. For corrosion, were performed electrochemical measurements (OCP and Tafel) and the cyclic test. Moreover, the phisical resistance were evaluated with humidity, flexibility and adherence tests: cross cut, steam jet, punctual impact and stone chip. The visual aspects results were similar for all the painted sets. For corrosion, the electrochemical tests presented similar results with the chemical test done by cycle test, in which the CJ_PANI and CJ_FLASH sets had showed them equivalent and the CJ_GLASURIT had better results, being the set more resistant. The phisical resistance could be divided in two types: dry and wet. The dry tests had similar results between the painted sets, but in the wet ones, the PZn set had presented susceptible for defects. In conclusion, the PZn composite had presented good results regarding visual aspects, electrochemical corrosion and dry technical tests when used in multilayer paint systems of the automotive industry. However, it presented a susceptible for defects in humidity environmental, losing adherence.