Professor David Scantlebury

My research interests and my major teaching are closely interrelated. For the whole of my academic career (nearly forty years!), I have been interested in the strange situation between a potentially corroding metal and the organic coating that is placed on that metal with the intention of preventing corrosion of that metal. There is a fascinating mixture of knowledge and disciplines overlapping, that I find attractive, including metallurgy, surface science, adhesion, electrochemistry, and polymer science. And all this arises from real problems with real solutions. My other related research interests include marine corrosion, cathodic protection, and the corrosion and corrosion control of rebar steel in concrete. I teach all these subjects mainly in Module 6 in the MSc in Corrosion Control Engineering but as well I give most of the year two undergraduate lectures in the Materials Science degree course. Since 1989, I have organised a five yearly international conference on corrosion protection by organic coatings, the next and fifth is in September 2009 at Christ's College Cambridge. My next and second Cathodic Protection Conference is here in Manchester 6/7th February 2006.

My administrative duties include being the course director for the MSc course in Corrosion Engineering and Control and the one week annual Short Course in Corrosion Engineering, now in its 35th year.

I have supervised some sixty successful PhD students from every part of the world and this social, intellectual and cultural interaction is one of the most satisfying features of my work. I currently hold a visiting Chair in the Department of Chemistry, University of Xiamen, China.

• The corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete and its prevention by coatings and/or cathodic protection
• The performance of steel structures in various marine situations, splash, tidal, fully submerged and seabed mud.
• The significance of adhesion to the performance of an anticorrosion paint coating.

• A.B.Darwin and J.D.Scantlebury, "Retarding of corrosion processes in reinforcement bar in concrete with a FBE coating", Cement and Concrete Composites, 24(1), 73-78, 2002
• M. Andrei, F. Di Gabriele, P. L. Bonora, J. D. Scantlebury, "Corrosion behaviour of magnesium sacrificial anodes in tap water" Materials and Corrosion, 54, 5-11, (2003)
• LK Xu and JD Scantlebury,"Electrochemical Surface Characterization of IrO2-Ta2O5 Coated Titanium Electrodes in Na2SO4 Solutions" J Electrochem Soc, 150 B254 (2003)
• DK Kim, TH Ha, YC Ha, JH Bae, HG Lee, D Gopi and JD Scantlebury, Alternating Current Induced Corrosion, Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology, 39(2), 117-123, (2004)