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The development of environmentally friendly process for pretreatments of metallic substrates is a field of growing research due to the ban against chromates used as protective pretreatments. Among the possible candidates for environmentally friendly pretreatments of aluminum alloys are the silica-based sol–gel coatings. Such coatings are able to form an Si–O–Al conversion layer providing a stable...
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