27.2.2025 CorroZoom webinar: Intelligent Design of Coatings for Corrosion Protection

The next CorroZoom webinar will be on 27 February and will be given by Prof. Dawei Zhang from the University of Science and Technology Beijing. The talk is entitled “Intelligent Design of Coatings for Corrosion Protection.” Dawei Zhang directs a world-leading activity in smart, self-healing coatings and is also active in AI-driven corrosion research and microbial corrosion.

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Intelligent Design of Coatings for Corrosion Protection
Dawei Zhang, University of Science and Technology Beijing

Abstract
Advanced organic coatings with active protective and self-healing properties have received considerable research interest due to their robust corrosion protection performance in harsh service environments. However, conventional trial-and-error strategies for designing and optimizing these intricate coating systems are time-consuming and labor-intensive. This talk focuses the application of intelligent technologies including discriminative/generative models, high-throughput automated experiments and their integration to accelerate the discovery of active protective and self-healing coatings out of vast compositional spaces. Beyond that, corrosion sensors and machine learning are leveraged to understand and predict coating performance in simulated/real service environments.

Biography
Dawei Zhang is a professor at University of Science and Technology Beijing. He is the director of the Office of International Affairs of the university and deputy director of National Materials Corrosion and Protection Data Center. He is a Fellow of Association for Materials Protection and Performance and the Chair of its International Advisory Council. His research interests include advanced protective coatings, AI-driven corrosion research and microbial corrosion. He has published over 200 papers with ~16,000 citations and an h-index of 66 (Jan 2025). He is an Editor of Corrosion Science, and editorial board member of several journals including npj Materials Degradation and Corrosion Engineering.