corrosion control – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu Building business on innovation Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:20:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/favicon-blue_1.png corrosion control – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu 32 32 UF Joins National Team Working To Curb Costly Infrastructure Corrosion (UF News) https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/uf-joins-national-team-working-to-curb-costly-infrastructure-corrosion/ Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:13:04 +0000 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/?p=20701 The University of Florida is part of a multi-university, interdisciplinary research team that will tackle the global challenge of halting corrosion of infrastructure, like bridges.

Mitigating corrosion is a global challenge that costs the United States nearly half a trillion dollars annually.

Current corrosion mitigation measures require costly chemical coatings, such as primers and top-coat layers, that cause human and environmental health risks. This project seeks to develop a coating system that uses naturally existing microbial biofilms growing on metal surfaces that appear to slow down or inhibit corrosion.

 

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