Open AccessThe structure of bright zinc coatings
Author(s) -
Danilo Nikolić,
I Konstantin Popov,
Zlatko Lj. Rakočević,
Rada Djurovic,
Gordána Pavlović,
Miodrag Stojanovic
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of the serbian chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1820-7421
pISSN - 0352-5139
DOI - 10.2298/jsc0011819n
Subject(s) - zinc , crystallite , crystallography , diffraction , hexagonal crystal system , materials science , chemistry , metallurgy , optics , physics
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.