The structure of bright zinc coatings

• Main Authors: MIODRAG STOJANOVIC, MIOMIR G. PAVLOVIC, ZLATKO RAKOCEVIC, DEJAN R.DUROVIC, KONSTANTIN I. POPOV, NEBOJSA D. NIKOLIC
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Serbian Chemical Society 2000-11-01
• Series: Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society
• Subjects: bright zinc coating; STM technique; X-ray diffraction analysis
• Online Access: http://www.shd.org.yu/HtDocs/SHD/Vol65/No11-Pdf/JSCS11-09.pdf
• ISSN: 0352-5139

The structures of bright zinc coatings obtained from acid sulfate solutions in the presence of dextrin/salicyl aldehyde mixture were examined. It was shown by the STM technique that the surfaces of bright zinc coatings are covered by hexagonal zinc crystals, the tops of planes of which are flat and mutually parallel and which exhibit smoothness on the atomic level. X-Ray diffraction (XRD) analysis of the bright zinc coatings showed that the zinc crystallites are oriented in the (110) plane only.