The research activity of PoliLaPP pertains to the corrosion of metallic materials and their protection, with particular attention to cathodic protection, a field where PoliLaPP has a recognized experience concerning both the electrochemical aspects and its technological and industrial development.
The main research activities are:
- Cathodic protection: monitoring, measurement techniques, effect of direct and alternating current interference, finite elements modeling, chemical effects (visit page)
- Atmospheric corrosion: evaluation of corrosion rate, production of a computer-based evaluation tool (visit page)
- Acid corrosion: validation of a predictive model for the corrosion rate in acid environments (visit page)
- Titanium electrochemical oxidation aimed at different scopes: from metal surface coloring to the production of photocatalytic ad self-cleaning surfaces, to the increase in corrosion resistance (visit page)
- Hydrogen embrittlement in pipeline steels
- Corrosion of reinforced concrete structures: use of ihibitors and external coatings (visit page)