Thin Films and Coatings for Active Corrosion Protection of Metals
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 3936
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is dedicated to highlighting the important progress achieved in the development of conversion coatings and oxide films in the corrosion protection of metals. Such protective layers must offer an effective physical barrier; however, defects are inevitable during the lifetime of coated structures, leading to local disruption. Therefore, an active protection based on the self-healing of defects is necessary to attain a long-term effect. For many years, the most effective corrosion protection systems were based on the use of chromate-rich surface treatment. However, legislative pressure pushes the science and industry to look for suitable alternatives for this unique material. A wide range of technologies has been investigated, demonstrating the array of alternative chemistries available for different metals. These include molybdates, vanadates, permanganate, phosphates, silanes, sol–gels, and rare-earth-based chemistries. However, only a few of them have been able to come close to or meet the corrosion protection requirements of metals.
We invite scientists to contribute with their new results achieved in the field of investigation of thin films and coatings exhibiting abilities of active corrosion protection (self-healing) of metals. The papers should provide comprehensive insight into the preparation and characterization of corrosion protection layers on various metals, including surface/interface characterization and self-healing mechanism studies.
In particular, topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Conversion coatings prepared by chemical or electrochemical treatment;
- Thin films obtained by sol–gel, magnetron sputtering, ALD, PVD, CVD and other techniques;
- Comparison of the protective and self-healing abilities of conversion and oxide coatings deposited by different technologies;
- Mechanism of corrosion process inhibition and self-healing run;
- Progress in thin-film characterization techniques;
- Theory and modeling of the physical properties of thin films;
- Surface interface characterization.
Prof. Dr. Rimantas Ramanauskas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- conversion and oxide coatings
- corrosion protection
- self-healing
- chromium-free
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