Laboratory for Emerging Materials and Corrosion

1. Lab Description and Capabilities

• Synthesis of advanced metallic materials with excellent corrosion resistance and mechanical properties
• Investigate the influence of processing, composition, and structure on the properties
• Development of metallic and ceramic coatings
• Investigate environmental degradation of materials

2. Deliverables

• Developing life prediction programs for key engineering components
• New techniques for testing reliability of commercial alloys
• Novel ultra-strong, lightweight, and corrosion resistant materials for auto, marine, and aerospace
• Processing technologies to improve the properties of commercial alloys
• Understanding structure/processing/property relationships
• Heat treatment of materials
• Study corrosion performance
• Metastable/nanostructured materials via high‐energy ball milling

3. Major Equipment and Specific Minor Equipment

• Multichannel potentiostat (Biologic VMP‐300)
• Optical microscope
• Muffle furnace (Carbolite, Operating temperature 1400 °C, various heating cycles)
• Split tube furnace (Carbolite, Operating temperature 1400 °C excellent temperature and atmosphere control)
• Bench top oven (Carbolite, excellent temperature control, 300 C)
• Planetary ball mill (Fritsch P‐4)
• Glove box
• Automatic 40‐ton hydraulic press

All NCERCAMP labs