Advanced Corrosion-Resistant Coatings: Design, Performance, and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Corrosion remains a major challenge that compromises the durability, safety, and performance of engineering materials across critical sectors, including energy, infrastructure, marine, aerospace, and biomedical applications. Corrosion-resistant coatings have therefore become one of the most effective and economically viable strategies for mitigating material degradation, evolving from simple passive barrier layers into intelligent and advanced multifunctional systems.

Driven by increasing demands for sustainability, durability, and cost efficiency, recent research has focused on the development of innovative coating technologies with enhanced performance and environmental compatibility. This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest advances in the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of corrosion-resistant coatings. Contributions are invited on metallic, ceramic, polymeric, and hybrid systems, with particular emphasis on nanostructured and multifunctional coatings, including self-healing, smart, and environmentally friendly formulations.

A key focus is the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning to accelerate materials discovery, predict degradation kinetics, optimize formulation parameters, and enable digital twin-assisted lifetime management. Topics of interest include fundamental corrosion mechanisms, coating–substrate interactions, and microstructure–property relationships, as well as advanced deposition techniques such as thermal spraying, electrochemical methods, and vapor deposition. Studies addressing electrochemical evaluation, long-term durability, modeling, and real-world performance under aggressive environments (e.g., high temperature, pressure, and saline exposure) are especially encouraged. Emerging approaches integrating artificial intelligence and data-driven methods for predictive maintenance and coating optimization are also of particular interest.

By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, this Special Issue seeks to accelerate the translation of cutting-edge research into practical, high-performance corrosion protection solutions for sustainable industrial applications.

Dr. Adel Mohamed
Prof. Dr. Narita Fumio
Guest Editors

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