Recent Advances in Coatings and Corrosion Inhibitors for Steel Protection

Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Coatings and Corrosion Inhibitors for Steel Protection”.

Steel remains a foundational material in infrastructure, energy, transportation, and marine engineering, yet its susceptibility to corrosion imposes significant economic and safety challenges. Recent advances in materials science, surface engineering, and electrochemistry have paved the way for the development of more durable, efficient, and sustainable corrosion protection methods. This Special Issue is designed to highlight pioneering research on innovative protective coatings (including smart, self-healing, and nanocoatings), corrosion inhibitors (both green and bio-inspired), advanced surface modification techniques, and cathodic protection systems. Particular focus will be on understanding degradation mechanisms under extreme or complex environments (for example, high humidity, marine immersion, atmospheric pollution, and stray current interference). We invite original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and case studies that bridge laboratory findings with practical applications. By bringing together contributions from both academia and industry, this issue aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and accelerate the transformation of novel protection technologies into real-world applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Smart and self-healing coatings for steel
2. Green and bio-inspired corrosion inhibitors
3. 2D materials and nanobarrier
4. Novel surface modification and conversion coatings
5. Cathodic protection innovations and hybrid systems
6. Corrosion under extreme or complex environments

Dr. Wilfred Emori
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Corrosion and Materials Degradation is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.