Effect of deformation on electrochemical properties of the double layer and surface charge of metals

Electrochemical measurements on plastically deformed metals revealed the previously predicted [1] deformation-induced shifts toward positive surface charge values and clarified the character of the intensification of the electrochemical heterogeneity of deformed metal surfaces (localization of activated anodes as a result of mechanochemical phenomena). The deformation-induced increase in the differential capacitance of the double layer is attributable to an increase in the intensity of physical (electrostatic) adsorption of SO₄^2- and HSO₄^- HSO₄^- anions on a positively charged surface in sulfuric acid solutions. A necessary (but not always sufficient) condition of the effectiveness of cation-active inhibitors of corrosion of plastically deformed metals is their stable chemisorption at potentials in the range of deformation-induced changes in the surface charge (of the order of tenths of a volt on the φ{symbol}-scale).