Assessment of Multifunctional Nanostructured Coatings/Metal Interfaces in Extreme Environments
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2019) | Viewed by 469
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Interests: degradation of materials, including passivation and localized corrosion of metals and alloys (CRA, shape memory alloys, high-entropy alloys); additive manufacturing of alloys, polymers, and oxides; corrosion inhibition; multifunctional and self-healing coatings; multiscale-electrochemical measurements; pipeline integrity management, including corrosion defect assessment by numerical modeling, and data driven corrosion assessment (machine learning, neural network)
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Dear Colleagues,
Nanostructured multifunctional coatings as single layer or multilayers covering metallic substrates are among the most highly-exploited research systems in the field of corrosion science and engineering. Spurred primarily by demanding environmental conditions required by current applications ranging from aerospace, automotive and chemical industries to oil and gas technologies, and also driven by current state of knowledge of corrosion prevention mechanisms, the need to maintain structural integrity and reliability assets under harsh environments, and a renewed impetus towards durability of new coating/ metallic substrate systems has seen a demand of experimental, theoretical and modeling activity. The manufacture, design and test of high-performance nanoparticles that are either electroactive (e.g., metals, graphene, carbon nanotubes, conductive polymers, composites, etc.) or are capable of serving as physical protection layers (organic polymers, composites materials, ceramic materials, etc.) provides unprecedented functionality and opportunities for multifunctional coatings protecting the metallic alloys (steels, stainless steels, aluminum, and magnesium).
The experimental, theoretical, computer simulation and field conditions approach are endless; however, challenges like performance assessment modeling and experimental, corrosion control mechanisms, localize attack monitoring and simulation, in situ high resolution electrochemical techniques, matrix and control over interfacial interactions with extreme (corrosive, temperature and stress) environments are yet to be completely resolved. Towards this goal, we are assembling a Special Issue of journal Metals to encourage researchers worldwide and to provide them with a platform to publish their novel studies and to offer chance to submit their valuable research, relating to the “Assessment of Multifunctional Nanostructured Coatings/Metal Interfaces in Extreme Environments”.
Prof. Dr. Homero Castaneda
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Multifunctional Nanostructured materials
- Lightweight alloys
- Coatings performance
- Extreme environments
- Performance modeling
- Reliability coatings modeling
- Electrochemical testing
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