IJC 2012 - Special Issue on 'Corrosion Protection Using Organic Coatings'

Organic coatings have been used for reactive metals as anticorrosion protection. Organic coatings typically comprise (i) a polymer binder, (ii) pigments to enhance color properties, and (iii) various additives, aiming to improve surface properties. Obviously the matrix of metal substrate/organic coating/corrosive medium is a multi-interfacial system where several processes simultaneously occur and consequently affect coatings anticorrosion properties. Due to the intrinsic complexity of such systems, the mechanisms of their protective effect have not been understood in sufficient depth. Understanding the fundamental processes of coating efficiency and possible degradation in various environments is a key step to understand and can be potentially used to optimize existing anticorrosive organic coatings or develop new materials with improved surface properties.
Organic coatings provide primarily long-lasting corrosion protection, which depends on the coating ability to protect an exposed metal surface when defects appear during their service lifetime. In recent years, the design and development of alternative organic coatings with self-healing abilities (i.e., shape memory materials and intrinsically conductive polymers) have been considered extremely useful materials in the protection of metals against corrosion. With the use of “smart” anticorrosive materials new challenges emerge in corrosion protection using organic coatings.
We would like to invite researchers to contribute original research and review articles on corrosion protection using organic coatings. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Recent developments in corrosion protection using organic coatings
Environmentally friendly organic coatings such as ICPs replacing the hazardous chromium (VI) materials
Understanding the mechanisms by which various types of organic coatings protect metal substrates
Identifying critical factors and mechanisms of the degradation of organic coatings in severe corrosive media
Latest strategies to design new organic coatings and optimize their anticorrosive behavior especially in terms of self-healing properties when defects appear
Development and design of electrochemical techniques for monitoring of localized corrosion and coatings regeneration processes within a damaged metal area
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijc/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:
Manuscript Due Friday, 27 July 2012
First Round of Reviews Friday, 19 October 2012
Publication Date Friday, 14 December 2012