Microbial Corrosion: Causes and Mitigation Strategies
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioactive Coatings and Biointerfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 162
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biocorrosion and bioenergetics; microbial corrosion mechanisms; materials science; electrochemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microbial corrosion (MIC) is one of the main causes of metallic materials failures worldwide, and it is estimated to account for more than 20% of the total cost of failures related to corrosion. To develop MIC mitigation and/or prevention, we must develop interdisciplinarity approaches to exploring innovative technologies based on a deeper understanding of the overall MIC mechanism. The best strategy to mitigate MIC is acting on the first stages of bacterial attachment and on biofilm inhibition, a still-growing scientific field. Therefore, novel techniques focused on the early stages of corrosion should be addressed. The use of innovative coating materials and engineered surfaces represents the new frontier in the corrosion field: by changing the surface configuration through the advanced functionalization of organic and inorganic coatings or via physical modification of the metallic surface it is possible to hinder the first stages of biofilm attachment, thus limiting microbial corrosion phenomena.
We are hence pleased to invite you to this upcoming Special Issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412, IF: 3.236; CiteScore:3.9), entitled “Microbial Corrosion: Causes and Mitigation Strategies”. The aim of the Issue is to expand the research knowledge on MIC mitigation and inhibition strategies using organic and inorganic coatings or engineered surfaces, encouraging scientists to propose novel and cutting-edge research.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Mechanisms of MIC corrosion
- MIC mitigation
- engineered surfaces
- novel organic and inorganic coatings for MIC
- anti-fouling coatings
- interaction between coatings and microorganisms
- degradation of coating materials by microorganisms
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Giorgia Ghiara
Dr. Leonardo Iannucci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- MIC mechanisms
- organic coatings
- inorganic coatings
- engineered surface
- coating degradation
- MIC mitigation
