Corrosion Resistance and Surface Treatment of Stainless Steel

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Materials entitled "Corrosion Resistance and Surface Treatment of Stainless Steels" will concern the broadly understood surface treatment of stainless steel in order to increase its mechanical properties with unchanged or improved corrosion resistance. Glow discharge processes such as low-temperature nitriding and oxynitriding make it possible to achieve these goals, just like hybrid treatments combining, for example, PVD or CVD processes with diffusion processes, ensuring the formation of surface layers with good adhesion to the steel substrate. This Special Issue will also publish articles on other surface treatments that will ensure the achievement of the required goals. The publications focusing on the influence of a specific microstructure of the surface layers formed in a specific treatment on the properties of stainless steel, in particular on its corrosion resistance determined by polarization and impedance methods, will be preferred. Research on the topography and surface roughness as well as the chemical and phase composition of the surface layer should provide information on the mechanism of increasing the corrosion resistance of stainless steel.

Prof. Dr. Jerzy Robert Sobiecki
Dr. Tomasz Borowski
Guest Editors

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