Advances in Coatings on Metals for Corrosion Protection
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 1349
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Corrosion is one of the key challenges faced by a variety of engineering materials. In nuclear reactor systems, fuel cladding materials and structural materials are under constant corrosion attacks by coolants like water, lead-bismuth eutectic, molten salt, etc. In aerospace engineering scenarios, corrosion is also one of the major challenging issues. Protection from corrosion in metals has attracted widespread attention from both academia and industry.
Coating technology has emerged as a potential game-changer in dealing with corrosion related to metallic materials. For example, effective coatings can bring oxidation corrosion kinetics down by an order of magnitude or more. However, coating adherence to the substrate materials and coating behaviors under complex working environments need to be carefully examined until coating technology can be applied to any engineering scenario. In a peculiar application field, such as in nuclear reactors, coatings need to survive extreme conditions such as neutron irradiations. In another engineering scenario, like aerospace engineering, coatings usually are subject to high temperatures. All these harsh environments put strict demands on the properties of coatings.
This Special Issue seeks scientific contributions about the development of coating technology in solving corrosion-related problems on metals in real engineering environments. Both experimental studies and simulation investigations on corrosion mechanisms, evolution of adherence properties, and failure analyses of coatings, etc., are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Di Yun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- coatings
- corrosion
- metals
- adherence
- failure
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