Innovation in Materials and Molecular Engineering. IMEM

CORROSION AND PROTECCTION

Protection of stainless steel, aluminum and magnesium alloys. Although much of the work in this field is done for companies, the causes of metallic corrosion and the design of new organic and hybrid coatings to fight against this kind of damage have attracted our attention in the last decades. Among others, coatings based on electroactive paints, in which conducting polymers are used to replace totally or partially conventional inorganic anticorrosive additives, sol-gel coatings based on silica, phosphonates and clays, and laser ablation treatments to create superhydrophobic surfaces, have been proposed as promising protective tools.

                        
                                                                   

Laser ablation of stainless steel and coating deposition to create superhydrophobic metal surfaces to avoid corrosion phenomena. Adv. Eng. Mater. 2018, 1700814- DOI: 10.1002/adem.201700814.

                                                                 

 

Contact: Prof. Elaine Armelin., Prof. Carlos Alemán and Dr. José Ignacio Iribarren.