The invention discloses a
metal uranium surface water-blocking
hydrogen-blocking Al / Al2O3 composite plating layer and a preparing method thereof. The purpose is to develop the
corrosion-resistant plating layer which has
high density and particularly can effectively block water and
hydrogen penetration so as to solve the problem about
surface corrosion of
metal uranium materials. The composite plating layer uses
uranium as a base body and is formed by alternately depositing an Al plating layer and an Al2O3 plating layer. According to the composite plating layer and the preparing method, the aluminum
oxide plating layer has a function of closing pores of the aluminum plating layer, and the following effects are achieved, wherein on one hand, introduction of the aluminum
oxide plating layer prevents continuous growth of columnar grains of the aluminum plating layer, so that penetrating holes and defects in the plating layer are greatly reduced, the compactness of the plating layer is improved, and the number of
permeation channels of corrosive media such as water and
hydrogen is significantly reduced; and on the other hand, aluminum
oxide is of a dense structure, is stable in performance and low in hydrogen permeability and can more effectively block penetration of small atomic size
corrosion media such as hydrogen, and the protection performance of the plating layer on the base body is improved. It is determined that the composite plating layer can effectively block penetration of environmental atmospheres such as the water and the hydrogen on the uranium.