Objective
In order to increase the corrosion resistance and to obtain a decorative effect, the oxide layer of aluminium and its alloys can be intensified by chemical and electrochemical processes. This oxide layer can be coloured, using different procedures, in order to obtain a decorative effect. The demand on coloured oxide layers in the architecture and the automobile industry is that they be light fastness and resistant to weathering and provide a suffficient corrosion protection of the layers. However for the colouring procedures until now only a very limited palett of colours exists which are furthermore often not light-fast and weathering-resistant. The new electrolytic colouring procedure with organic, cationic dyes to be developed and tested within this project will offer for the first time the possibility to colour anodized aluminium with the complete spectrum of colours, hues, shades and brightness; these coloured layers are light-fast, weathering-resistant and abrasion-resistant (since the pigments are deposited at the bottom of the pores of the anodic oxide layer where they are protected against weathering and abrasion). Aluminium oxide layers which can fulfill these requirements will contribute to making coloured oxide layers attractive again for the market. Above all, by an attractive colouring, the acceptance and the sales of aluminium products would increase. By this means, the business results of the branch can be favourably influenced, especially the competitiveness with regard to countries having low wages. The testing of the procedures ensues in laboratory and field experiments. A colouring procedure which meets the demands of the market would mean a considerable advantage in competition for the small and medium-sized enterprises within Europe. The results will be carried over into the elaboration of new regulations and into the revisions of national and international norms.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology materials engineering colors
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry post-transition metals
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40597 Düsseldorf
Germany
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