Root Causes of and Preventative Measures against the Biodeterioration and Biocorrosion of Materials

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of the journal—“Root Causes of and Preventative Measures against the Biodeterioration and Biocorrosion of Materials“—has a broad focus on understanding and predicting the core causes of the biocorrosion and biodeterioration of surfaces and concrete measures for preventing such damage to the surfaces of materials. Such a broad topic cannot be limited to a single discipline but must include many disciplines and a variety of expertise. On the one hand, we need scientists and engineers whose field of expertise includes material science and metallurgical engineering to pinpoint the weak spots of materials, which are the most susceptible to localized corrosion and pitting. On the other hand, we need chemists who understand the electrochemical processes that lead to accelerate localized deterioration of materials in relation to coating and material interfaces and their role in preventing or accelerating surface deterioration. We need expertise in microbiology, molecular biology and related disciplines in order to assess the roles of specific bacteria and their metabolites in biocorrosion and biodeterioration. We need expertise and experience in material science at the nanoscale to bridge the processes of the nano-world and the macro-world. Therefore, this Special Issue will bring together a wide range of disciplines to focus on a fairly specific objective: Identify what causes corrosion and biodeterioration and how can we prevent this from happening. A wide variety of techniques and combinations of them including improved metallurgy, coating with special polymers or mixtures of polymers and nanoparticles, and next-generation products that have not yet been investigated will be considered. If you feel your manuscript addresses any of these issues, we will be happy to consider publishing it.

In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Root causes of localized corrosion and preventative measures.
• Coating of surfaces to prevent biotic and abiotic deterioration of coating materials and of underlying metallic or other surfaces.
• Role of nanoparticles and their applications in material coatings to prevent corrosion and deterioration of materials such as concrete and carbon steel inside concrete.
• The role of the metallurgical history of materials, metallurgical defects and inclusions in the localized corrosion of materials such as carbon and stainless steels and measures to prevent localized corrosion.
• Next-generation non-corroding materials for replacing carbon steel and other steels for structural and pipeline applications.
• Next-generation coating materials for preventing biotic and abiotic corrosion.

Prof. Recep Avci
Guest Editor

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