{"id":178774,"date":"2023-12-20T23:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T05:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/unveiling-the-atomic-secrets-of-metal-decay-a-revolutionary-look-at-corrosion"},"modified":"2023-12-20T23:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T05:23:58","slug":"unveiling-the-atomic-secrets-of-metal-decay-a-revolutionary-look-at-corrosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/unveiling-the-atomic-secrets-of-metal-decay-a-revolutionary-look-at-corrosion","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling the Atomic Secrets of Metal Decay: A Revolutionary Look at Corrosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unveiling-the-atomic-secrets-of-metal-decay-a-revolutionary-look-at-corrosion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Groundbreaking research reveals new details about water vapor\u2019s interaction with metals at an atomic level, with implications for corrosion management and clean-energy development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When water vapor meets metal, the resulting corrosion can lead to mechanical problems that harm a machine\u2019s performance. Through a process called passivation, it also can form a thin inert layer that acts as a barrier against further deterioration.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the exact chemical reaction is not well understood on an atomic level, but that is changing thanks to a technique called environmental transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which allows researchers to directly view molecules interacting on the tiniest possible scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groundbreaking research reveals new details about water vapor\u2019s interaction with metals at an atomic level, with implications for corrosion management and clean-energy development. When water vapor meets metal, the resulting corrosion can lead to mechanical problems that harm a machine\u2019s performance. Through a process called passivation, it also can form a thin inert layer that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}