Self-Assembled Morphogenic Metal Coatings

This proposal aims to develop highly corrosion resistant and mechanically robust coatings for maritime steel alloys. The overall effort is multidisciplinary, led out of Johns Hopkins University, with Professor McCue’s research group supporting material synthesis and mechanical testing. Our effort will focus on designing nanostructured metallic coatings for the team, developing the powder metallurgy to synthesize these coatings, and evaluating their corrosion fatigue performance. We plan to leverage a unique capability in the PI’s laboratory, a gas atomizer, capable of producing any desired alloy formulation. One student will be supported on this project to understand the processing-structure-properties tradeoffs between the microstructure of the coatings and their corrosion fatigue performance.