{"id":240043,"date":"2026-06-30T22:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/plasma-and-graphene-combine-to-protect-metal-surfaces-from-corrosion"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:12:45","slug":"plasma-and-graphene-combine-to-protect-metal-surfaces-from-corrosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/plasma-and-graphene-combine-to-protect-metal-surfaces-from-corrosion","title":{"rendered":"Plasma and graphene combine to protect metal surfaces from corrosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plasma-and-graphene-combine-to-protect-metal-surfaces-from-corrosion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plasma is an ionized gas, often referred to as the fourth state of matter. Plasmas, which are created artificially by applying energy to a gas, are found in the fluorescent tubes that illuminate kitchens. However, they have many other possible applications, such as the production of graphene.<\/p>\n<p>The Plasma Innovation Laboratory (LIPs) at the University of C\u00f3rdoba has <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-10-plasma-based-technological-boosts-graphene.html\">already made progress<\/a> in using plasma to produce graphene, the revolutionary material that earned its discoverers the Nobel Prize. Recently, a new technological design boosted graphene production by more than 22%. Continuing along this line of research, the team is now proposing two methods for applying graphene\u2014also highly anticorrosive\u2014to metal surfaces using microwave plasmas at atmospheric pressure, with the aim of not altering the properties of the metals.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S246802302600492X\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Surfaces and Interfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plasma is an ionized gas, often referred to as the fourth state of matter. Plasmas, which are created artificially by applying energy to a gas, are found in the fluorescent tubes that illuminate kitchens. However, they have many other possible applications, such as the production of graphene. The Plasma Innovation Laboratory (LIPs) at the University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240043","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}