Corrosion and Corrosion Protection

This research program seeks to determine the mechanisms involved in corrosion and other electrochemical processes, with a focus on the processes occurring at the oxide/solution and oxide/metal interfaces, and the composition of oxide films. The approach involves a combination of electrochemical testing using standard potentiostats, controlled temperature/relative humidity chambers, rotating ring disk electrodes, stress-effects on corrosion kinetics, and surface analysis techniques such as x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), x...