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RAP opportunity at Naval Research Laboratory     NRL

Corrosion and Corrosion Protection

Location

Naval Research Laboratory, DC, Chemistry

opportunity location
64.15.15.B3024 Washington, DC 203755321

Advisers

name email phone
Steve Policastro steven.policastro@nrl.navy.mil 202.404.3869
Raymond J Santucci raymond.santucci@nrl.navy.mil 804 514 2053

Description

This research program seeks to determine the mechanisms involved in corrosion and other electrochemical processes. We are particularly interested in the processes occurring at the oxide/solution and oxide/metal interfaces, and the composition of oxide films. Our experimental approach combines electrochemical testing using standard potentiostats, controlled temperature/relative humidity chambers, rotating ring disk electrodes, stress-effects on corrosion kinetics, and surface analysis techniques such as x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), and glow-discharge, optical emission spectroscopy (GD-OES) while our modeling and theory approaches are focused on kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations and macroscale models of corrosion processes.

 

key words
Corrosion; Electrochemistry; Materials science; Surface analysis; Modeling

Eligibility

Citizenship:  Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents
Level:  Open to Postdoctoral applicants

Stipend

Base Stipend Travel Allotment Supplementation
$99,200.00 $3,000.00
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