The No. 1 threat to the U.S. Navy isn’t a foreign adversary. It’s corrosion. And many admirals say they’re losing the battle. What the Department of Defense spends dealing with corrosion each year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine leaving your shiny metal bicycle outside in the rain. As water pools on its surfaces, oxygen from the air lingers nearby, ...

With much of the world’s population living in close proximity to water and humidity, corrosion of metallic materials has been an inevitable part of the human experience. While the oxidation of iron ...

The moon probably shouldn’t have rust. Rust, an iron oxide, requires both oxygen and water to occur naturally, so you’d think a celestial body that’s mostly dry and completely absent of oxygen ...

What if steel could be stronger, cheaper, easier to manufacture, and virtually immune to rust? That question has challenged engineers for generations. As one of the world's most widely used materials, ...

Scientists at the Tokyo University of Science have used rust as a catalyst in light-assisted hydrogen production from organic waste, finding it produces 25 times more hydrogen than previous titanium ...

This chapter presents the committee’s thoughts about grand challenges for the broad field of corrosion science. The committee developed a working definition of a corrosion grand challenge, applied ...

Imagine leaving your shiny metal bicycle outside in the rain. As water pools on its surfaces, oxygen from the air lingers nearby, and together they begin to quietly attack the metal. The iron in the ...