Epoxy resins are an important class of thermostable polymers, widely used in structural applications or as adhesives. However, the low fracture resistance is their main weakness in many applications. Due to this fact, this study aims to modify a polymer matrix based on a novolac epoxy resin with an organo siloxane (AMS). The final properties of cured epoxys resins are affected by the curing process and the coatings modified in this study with AMS and cured with acid catalyst presented greater resistance to thermal decomposition compared to that cured with Aradur, demonstrating a higher content of crosslinking in the siloxane polyether and the novolak epoxy resin chains. This epoxy matrix modified was used to prepare coatings whose films applied to 1020 steel surfaces presented a resistance of 1010 Ohm-cm-2. This resistance value is one order of magnitude greater than that of epoxy resins films modified by siloxanes in published studies, which demonstrates a potential economy in terms of maintenance costs of metal structures and machines used in power plants (UTE). To obtain the developed inks in pilot plant scale, it was used an aromatic polyamine as curing agent, characterizing the product obtained as an epoxy bi-component paint for commercial use.

Polypyrrole (PPy) films were galvanostatically deposited on 99.9 wt. (%) aluminum electrodes from aqueous solutions containing each carboxylic acid: tartaric, oxalic or citric. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) was used to analyze the morphology of the aluminum surfaces coated with the polymeric films. It was observed that the films deposited from tartaric acid medium presented higher homogeneity than those deposited from oxalic and citric acid. Furthermore, the corrosion protection of aluminum surfaces by PPy films was also investigated by potentiodynamic polarization experiments.