Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore.
Small. 2012 Sep 10;8(17):2621-35. doi: 10.1002/smll.201200475. Epub 2012 Jun 18.
The annual cost of corrosion has been increasing globally, and it has now reached beyond 3% of the world's gross domestic product. It remains a challenge to reduce or prevent unwanted corrosion effectively after many decades of effort. Nowadays, more efforts are being made to develop anti-corrosion platforms for decreasing the huge cost of corrosion. In parallel, it is also highly expected to be able to use corrosion for producing useful materials with reduced energy consumption. In this review, recent progress in how methods for controlling metal corrosion can be used to produce structure-diversified nanomaterials are summarized along with a presentation of their applications. As a valuable addition to the scientists' toolbox, metal corrosion strategies can be applied to different metals and their alloys for the production of various nanostructured materials; this also provides insights into how metal corrosion can be further prevented and into how corrosion wastage can be reduced.
全球范围内，腐蚀的年成本一直在增加，现已超过全球国内生产总值的 3%。尽管经过几十年的努力，人们仍难以有效减少或防止这种不必要的腐蚀。如今，人们正在投入更多精力开发防腐平台，以降低巨大的腐蚀成本。与此同时，人们还期望能够利用腐蚀来生产具有较低能耗的有用材料。在这篇综述中，总结了近年来控制金属腐蚀的方法在制备结构多样化纳米材料方面的最新进展，并介绍了它们的应用。作为科学家工具包的有益补充，金属腐蚀策略可应用于不同的金属及其合金，用于制备各种纳米结构材料；这也使人们进一步了解如何预防金属腐蚀以及如何减少腐蚀损失。
