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From Corrosion to Emerging Applications—Fundamentals and Recent Advancements in Metals Anodizing

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 671

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Department of Functional Materials and Hydrogen Technology, Faculty of Advanced Technologies and Chemistry, Military University of Technology, 2 Kaliskiego Street, 00908 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: anodizing, photocatalysis; corrosion; anodizing; nanopores; bimetallic catalysts
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Dear Colleagues,

Metal and alloy anodizing techniques are well known in the scientific community for their diverse range of applications. This fruitful journey started over a century ago, when aluminum alloys were anodized for corrosion protection. The research on this subject is ongoing, with the aim of identifying new, non-toxic solutions for high-tech industries. Moreover, various semiconductors with a higher surface area, such as TiO­2 or CuOx, are formed via anodizing, contributing to emerging fields including renewable energy harvesting and the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide.

We are pleased to invite you to provide valuable insight in the form of research or review papers. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Fundamentals of metal anodizing;
  • Applications of nanostructured anodic oxides;
  • New methods and tools in anodic oxide characterization;
  • New, environmentally friendly approaches to anodizing.

I am looking forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Wojciech J. Stępniowski
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Keywords

  • anodizing
  • anodic aluminum oxide
  • nanopores
  • nanotubes
  • anodic titania
  • corrosion
  • hydrogen generation
  • photocatalysis
  • carbon dioxide reduction

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Nanostructures Formed by Brass Electrochemical Oxidation—Fabrication Strategies and Emerging Applications
by Wojciech Jan Anioł, Piotr Dobroń, Katarzyna Tomczyk and Wojciech J. Stępniowski
Materials 2025, 18(8), 1728; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma18081728 - 10 Apr 2025
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Brasses are well-known structural materials, and their electrochemistry seems to be known. However, the formation of nanostructured anodic oxides on brasses is still not common and researched enough. Despite the electrochemical oxidation or anodization of copper and zinc being well-recognized and known in [...] Read more.
Brasses are well-known structural materials, and their electrochemistry seems to be known. However, the formation of nanostructured anodic oxides on brasses is still not common and researched enough. Despite the electrochemical oxidation or anodization of copper and zinc being well-recognized and known in the scientific community, there is a lack of a satisfactory amount of research on brass anodizing. Both copper and zinc can passivate in neutral and alkaline electrolytes, and also the mechanism of the nanostructured oxide growth of both seems to be similar. In this review, much effort was put in to gather the information on the protocols on the electrochemical oxidations of brasses and their applications. Usually, the effects of electrochemical oxidation allow us to obtain nanostructured surfaces made of mixed Cu and Zn species. The formation of such composite nanostructures allows us to apply them in such emerging applications as photocatalytic organic pollutant decomposition, photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation, electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reactions, or electrochemical methanol oxidation. Full article
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