An ultrafine-grained surface layer of a pure Mg sheet was fabricated by sliding friction treatment. The grain size of the surface for the treated sample was reduced to 300 nm from… Click to show full abstract
An ultrafine-grained surface layer of a pure Mg sheet was fabricated by sliding friction treatment. The grain size of the surface for the treated sample was reduced to 300 nm from 50 μm for the as-received counterpart. The ultrafine-grained pure Mg shows significantly enhanced corrosion resistance compared to its coarse-grained counterpart, representing a lower mass loss, a higher polarization resistance and a smaller hydrogen volume, mainly attributed to the relatively compacted film formed on the sample surface.
               
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