The sustainability debate in materials science sometimes asks the wrong questions. How do we recycle more aluminium & steel? These are legitimate — but they treat recyclability/sustainability as an afterthought, forcing materials never designed for circularity back into something useful at considerable cost and energy penalty: facts that Europe, specially, cannot anymore afford. The presence … Continue reading New recycling processes or new materials?
Tag: aerospace
Maximizing corrosion resistance of aerospace aluminium with self-healing coatings
The use of sol-gel coatings to increase the corrosion resistance of commercial aerospace aluminium alloys is the topic of our most-recent paper at Corrosion Science. In combination with anodization treatment and the use of Ce nanoparticles to fill-in the pores of the anodic layer, we have observed that a post-treatment with sol-gel coatings further increases … Continue reading Maximizing corrosion resistance of aerospace aluminium with self-healing coatings


