Corrosion and Corrosion Protection for Light Metals/Alloys
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 41827
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Light metals, including aluminum and magnesium, and so on, and their alloys, offer excellent mechanical properties, such as high specific strength and good ductility. Therefore, they are expected to be used as stractural materials for transportation parts in order to mitigate CO2 emissions. However, their low corrosion resistance has restricted their application in corrosive environments. Up to now, various surface treatments such as anodization and chemical conversion have been developed. However, there is still plenty of room to improve them. There is a need, therefore, for a novel corrotion protection or coating technology that is capable of improving the corrosion resistance of the light metals.
Great importance in corrosion protection is enabling of uniform formation of film and its higher chemical stability in corrosive environments. This can be achieved by surface pre-treatment or modificaion of microstructure of substrate. Thus, this Special Issue focuses on not only a novel corrotion protection or coating technology to improve corrosion resitance of the light metals but also corrosion mechanism of light metals responsible for improvement of corrision resistance and for the effect of corrosion protection by surface pre-treatment or modificaion of microstructure of substrate.
Prof. Takahiro Ishizaki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Light metals
- Corrosion Protection
- Coating
- Corrosion Resistance
- Corrosion
- Microstructure
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