Special issue. Surface finishing of stainless steel. Electropolishing and chemical polishing for stainless steel.

Chemical Surface Treatment of Stainless Steel

Electrochemical polishing of 316L stainless steel slotted tube coronary stents.

Surface smoothness is one of the properties determining the performance of stents. Therefore, surface polishing shows its importance in the exploitation and production of stents. The present study explores electrochemical polishing of 316L stainless steel slotted tube coronary stents produced by laser cutting. Acid pickling was also studied as a pre-treatment of electrochemical polishing of the...

Stainless Steel Type 316Ti

Allegheny Ludlum Type 316Ti (UNS S31635) is a titanium stabilized version of Type 316 molybdenum-bearing austenitic stainless steel. It is also known as DIN/EN designation No. 1.4571. The Type 316 alloys are more resistant to general corrosion and pitting/crevice corrosion than the conventional chromium-nickel austenitic stainless steels such as Type 304. They also offer higher creep, stress-ru...

IMPROVING PITTING CORROSION OF 304 STAINLESS STEEL BY ELECTROPOLISHING TECHNIQUE

Several surface modification techniques such as ion implantation, surface laser melting, have been employed to improve pitting corrosion resistance of stainless steel. Electropolishing is a technique in which the surface roughness is eliminated through a selective electrochemical dissolution. The effect of electropolishing on pitting corrosion of 304 stainless steel (SS) was investigated employ...

The effect of polishing technics on surface smoothness and plaque accumulation on stainless steel crowns.

The purpose of tins study was to evaluate the surface produced when stainless steel crowns were polished by several technics and to compare the ability of the various polished surfaces to resist bacterial plaque accumulation. Twenty-one Unitek and twenty-one Ion primary molar stainless steel crowns were divided into several groups containing three crowns each. Each group was polished with a dif...