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CORROSION RESEARCH CENTER AREAS OF RESEARCH
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AQUEOUS CORROSION
Professor Emeritus Richard A.
Oriani
Research in Aqueous Corrosion focuses on the thermodynamics and
kinetics of electrochemical processes at heterogeneous surfaces. Areas of
interest include:
- optical and semiconducting properties of TiO2 grown on Ti as related to
photoelectrochemical microscopy,
- interfacial stresses in oxide films as a function electrochemical
parameters,
- mathematical modeling of electrochemical processes,
- studies of corrosion processes in very thin electrolytes (on the order
of tens of angstroms) by the use of a Kelvin probe technique,
- studies of nuclear reactions that accompany electrochemical deposition
of hydrogen upon metals. (This phenomenon is completely unexpected and
unexplainable by contemporary physics and is being studied by means of
alpha particle track detectors.)