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Silane films for pre-treatment of aluminium: film formation and curing I De Graeve, A Franquet, C Le Pen, H Terryn and J Vereecken, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Part 1: film formation mechanism. Part 2: corrosion protective properties of the organosilane films. Conclusions. References. EIS investigation of the behaviour in 0.1 M NaCl of a double layer cerium – silane pre-treatment on Al 2024-T3 L E M Palomino, I P Aquino, I V Aoki and H G de Melo, Polytechnic School of the São Paulo University, Brazil Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Conclusions. Acknowledgements. References. Deposition of ZrO2 on Al 1050 alloy as an adhesion promoter: two preparation routes R Di Maggio, S Rossi, University of Trento, Italy and P Aldighieri and L Fedrizzi, University of Udine, Italy Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Conclusions. References. Sol-gel coatings for pitting corrosion resistance of AA 2024-T3 aluminium alloy Y Sepúlveda, E González, M A Páez, Universidad de Santiago de Chile C M Rangel, INETI, Portugal and P Skeldon and G E Thompson, University of Manchester, UK Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Conclusions. Acknowledgements. References. Mg-rich primer for chromate-free protective systems on Al 2024 and Al 7075 D Battocchi, G Bierwagen, A Stamness, D Tallman, North Dakota State University, USA and A Simões, Instituto Superio Tecnico, Portugal Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Conclusions. Acknowledgements. References. Importance of the near-surface region in the surface pre-treatment of rolled recycled aluminium P Premendra, J H W de Wit, L Katgerman, Delft University of Technology and H Terryn, Netherlands Institute for Metals Research (NIMR), The Netherlands Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Discussion. Conclusions. Acknowledgements. References. Corrosion studies and analytical characteristics of galvanised steel substrates pretreated with doped silane solutions M F Montemor, M G S Ferreira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, W Trabelsi, E Triki, L Dhoubi, ENIT, Tunisia and M Zheludkevich, University of Aveiro, Portugal Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Conclusions. Acknowledgements. References. Electrochemical evaluation of protection methods for galvanised steel using passivation treatments without hexavalent chromium M G Olivier, Faculté polytechnique de Mons, C Motte, Materia Nova asbl, L Genot Arcelor Group and J-F Willem, Cockerill Sambre Group, Belgium Introduction. Experimental. Results. Conclusions. Acknowledgements. References. XPS and SVET study on the effect of cerium nitrate on the corrosion behaviour of electrogalvanised steel substrates P Cecílio, R G Duarte, A M Simões, M G S Ferreira and M F Montemor, Instituto Superio Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon,Portugal Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Conclusions. Acknowledgements. References. Inhibition of corrosion of zinc by Cr(VI) and Cr(III) treatments X Zhang, H Terryn, J H W de Wit, Netherlands Institute for Metals Research, C van den Bos, Delft University of Technology and A Hovestad, TNO Science and Industry, The Netherlands Introduction. Experimental. Results. Discussion. Conclusions. Acknowledgements. References. Use of surfactant to develop an aqueous conversion coating: zinc heptanoate Zn(C7)2 S Jaques, E Rocca, J Steinmetz, Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide Minéral, M-J Stébé, Equipe Physico-Chimie des Collaïdes, H Derule, Arcelor Research and N Genet, Total France, France Introduction. Experimental. Results. Discussion. Conclusions. Acknowledgements. References. Effect of silane solution concentration on the anticorrosive protection of pretreatments applied on steel B Chico, M L Pérez, D de la Fuente and M Morcillo, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas (CSIC), Spain Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Conclusions. Acknowledgements. References. In situ monitoring of dissolution-precipitation mechanisms using coupled quartz crystal microbalance/atomic emission spectroelectrochemistry K Ogle, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Surfaces, A Tomadl, Voest-Alpine Stahl, Austria and N Meddahi, Arcelor Research, France Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Conclusions. Acknowledgements. References. Silane pretreatments on copper to improve the adhesion of organic coatings S Rossi, F Deflorian, M Fedel, University of Trento, and L Fedrizzi, University of Udine, Italy Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Conclusion. References. Improvement of corrosion resistance of Mg alloys by physical and chemical surface treatment L Kwiatkowski, M Grobelny, Institute of Precision Mechanics, H Pokhmurska, A Wank, B Wielage, Institute of Composite Materials, Germany and W Kalita, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland Introduction. Results and discussion. Conclusions. Acknowledgement. References. Electrochemical behaviour of Mo, MoTi and MoNb thin films obtained by PVD C R Tomachuk, D B Mitton, F Belluci, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy and J Springer, Zentrum für Sonnenenergie und Wasserstoff-Forschung, Germany Introduction. Experimental. Results and discussion. Conclusion. Acknowledgement. References.