Corrosion-Resistant Metallic Materials: Surface Engineering & Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion, Wear and Erosion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2026 | Viewed by 79
Special Issue Editors
Interests: high-performance copper alloys; copper-based composites; nano/functional materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your research to this Special Issue "Corrosion-Resistant Metallic Materials: Surface Engineering & Applications".
Corrosion poses a persistent threat to the integrity and service life of metallic materials across diverse industries, including the marine and shipbuilding industry, petroleum and mineral sectors, biomedical systems, and energy storage devices. It not only leads to substantial economic losses but also raises safety and sustainability concerns.
Surface engineering represents one of the most direct and effective approaches to inhibit the initiation and progression of corrosion on metallic surfaces. Alloy composition optimization, coating technologies, surface modification, and other approaches have provided powerful tools to enhance corrosion protection under complex service conditions, bridging fundamental mechanisms with industrial applications.
This Special Issue will present the recent advances in the design, fabrication, and application of corrosion-resistant metallic materials, with a particular focus on surface engineering. We welcome original research and review articles from scientists and engineers worldwide.
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Design and development of corrosion-resistant alloys.
- Surface coatings and modification technologies for corrosion protection.
- Multi-field coupling corrosion, including biomedical, energy storage, and marine environment applications.
- Advanced characterization of corrosion surface and degradation processes.
- Modelling and simulation of corrosion processes and protection.
Dr. Zhu Xiao
Dr. Ziqian Zhao
Guest Editors
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-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Coatings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 2600 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.
Keywords
- corrosion
- metal and alloys
- surface engineering
- coatings
- multi-field coupling corrosion
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