At HORIBA, we understand the critical role of elemental analysis in advancing corrosion protection. For the corrosion protection market, our advanced analytical instruments provide precise, real-time data that supports materials qualification, research and development in coatings, and the prevention of degradation.
Our comprehensive solutions encompass multiscale tools (nano, micro, and macro) and multidimensional analyses, offering detailed molecular and elemental characterization. These tools seamlessly integrate with your existing lab equipment while incorporating complementary solutions.
Corrosion researchers, materials scientists, and industrial engineers seeking advanced solutions to enhance corrosion protection strategies can rely on HORIBA’s global leadership in analytical techniques, adaptable technologies, and unparalleled support.
With our extensive expertise, we are your trusted one-stop provider for corrosion protection research and industrial applications worldwide.
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HORIBA’s Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES) delivers highly sensitive and precise elemental analysis for liquid samples, as well as solid samples when paired with specialized accessories. This powerful technique excels in detecting trace elements across a wide range of matrices, including highly salted samples, offering both exceptional precision and an extensive dynamic range. Ideal for a variety of applications such as environmental monitoring, metallurgy, corrosion studies, nuclear material analysis, food safety, and chemical analysis, ICP-OES is the go-to solution for users seeking accurate, reliable, and versatile elemental analysis.
Know more about HORIBA ICP-OES products and technologyElemental analysis plays a pivotal role in selecting materials that can endure corrosive environments. By accurately assessing composition and ensuring long-term durability, HORIBA’s advanced techniques empower industries to make informed, data-driven decisions for superior corrosion protection.
Why Elemental Analysis Matters:
Protective coatings, ranging from nanoscale to micrometers, play a key role in preventing corrosion which alters material composition over time, with the migration of elements to surfaces, or a variation of their depth. Materials’ elemental composition must be thoroughly analyzed to ensure performance and longevity.
With strict norms and evolving materials, HORIBA’s solutions are tailored to meet the highest standards, offering reliability in even the most challenging environments.
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Explore HORIBA solutions for corrosion analysisLaboratory “Interfaces and Electrochemical Systems”, Sorbonne University, France
Dr. Junsoo Han (left) and his team, in front of the HORIBA Ultima Expert, a key tool in their research on electromical systems
We have been working with the ICP-OES system from HORIBA for electrochemical research, primarily in the corrosion mechanisms of metallic materials in aqueous environments. The coupling between ICP-OES and electrochemical measurement requires many new ideas and expertise to realize “element-resolved electrochemistry” which can be applied in various domains such as energy materials, reaction kinetics, and electrocatalysts, even in non-aqueous environments. The ICP-OES system from HORIBA provides high sensitivity and versatile element choices for complex systems, making it adaptable to this relatively new field of element-resolved analysis. It has been a pleasure to work with HORIBA especially on other novel couplings to investigate atomic-level analysis thanks to their adaptability and flexibility in inventing new innovative analytical tools. 
Research engineer at CNRS, France
The UTINAM Institute (UMR CNRS 6213) specializes in surface treatments, particularly for corrosion resistance applications. The UTINAM Chemistry Platform is equipped with a GD Profiler, a powerful tool for depth profiling of micrometric coatings and thin films.
Our researchers, as well as academic laboratories and industrial partners, collaborate with us on a wide range of applications: Zn alloy coatings for the automotive industry; anodizing of aluminum and titanium alloys for aerospace; noble metal thin films for jewelry, luxury goods or microelectronics; multilayers for optical or temperature sensors...
We also have calibration expertise, enabling us to provide quantitative analyses.
In addition, we have optimized GD measurements beyond conductive samples, enabling the analysis of organic thin films on glass substrates.
This has enabled us to extend the technique's applications, including conductive polymers:
Moutarlier, V., Lakard, S., Patois, T., & Lakard, B. (2014). Glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy: a complementary technique to analyze thin electrodeposited polyaniline films. Thin Solid Films, 550, 27-35.
Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, France, in Paris Sciences and Letters University (PSL)
My research focuses on the understanding interface stability in complex materials and environments in order to improve their durability. Applications include corrosion of multiphase metallic alloys, metal/oxide/polymer interfaces in painted systems, conversion coatings, hybrid paints, and photovoltaic systems in aqueous or atmospheric environments relevant to their formation or service conditions.
GDOES is a tool used by me and my students in a major part of the studies. Rapid and easy elemental depth profiling by GDOES allows us to follow up diffusion of the environmental species through the surface films to the material and their diffusion from the internal interfaces to the external surface, thus approaching degradation or film formation mechanisms.
A special interest of GDOES is that it does not require high vacuum and can be adapted for not fully flat surfaces. As a result, rough and wet corroded surfaces still can be analyzed.
As an example, combining GDOES and in situ Raman allowed us a detailed analysis and mechanistic understanding of how allowing elements (Li) and solution components (corrosion inhibitors) reduce aqueous corrosion rate of magnesium alloys via modification of its surface film.
Similar combination allowed us to evidence sodium and molybdenum diffusion during atmospheric corrosion of thin film CIGS photovoltaic cells and understand the mechanisms of their electrical performance loss.
In many studies, GDOES profiling is also used to reach buried interfaces for complementary analyses (XPS for chemical speciation, ToF-SIMS for mapping), which allows a 3D mapping. In the studies of paint de-adhesion, we have used GDOES as a tool to create controlled nanometer-thick defects in conversion coatings prior to painting in order to study de-adhesion mechanisms at buried interfaces. This approach allowed us to demonstrate the existence of a critical size of the defect which will lead to de-adhesion while smaller defect can heal.
In situ surface film evolution during Mg aqueous corrosion in presence of selected carboxylates, Corros. Sci. (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2020.108484
On the in-situ aqueous stability of an Mg-Li-(Al-Y-Zr) alloy: Role of Li, Corros. Sci. (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2019.108342
Control of perovskite film crystallization and growth direction to target homogeneous monolithic structures. Nat. Commun. (2022), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34332-3
Detection and quantification of defect evolution at buried metal-oxide-polymer interface on rough substrate by local electrochemical impedance mapping, Electrochim. Acta (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2021.138467.
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