MATERIALS WORLD: Getting to the centre of corrosion

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Philip Withers, Regis Professor of Materials at the University of Manchester, UK, and Chief Investigator of the programme, notes that while there is a greater empiric understanding of corrosion, the underpinning assumptions date back decades. Withers told Materials World, ‘We predict the rate of corrosion at a uniform rate. But it hasn’t been possible to look at how corrosion films form at the earliest stages – what the nuclei of corrosion events are.’