50th Corrosion Science Symposium and UR Evans Award
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50th Corrosion Science Symposium and UR Evans Award


The 50th Corrosion Science Science Symposium was held in Manchester on the 16th and 17th of September running in conjunction with the Royal Society of Chemistry’s annual Electrochem conference. Following the successful collaboration of the two meetings in Southampton in 2003,
this was another well attended meeting,
with over 210 attendees. Discussions on our next link up with the RSC in a few years are already underway.

The chance to meet up and exchange ideas with the electrochemists and electrochemical engineers who form the core of the RSC’s Faraday and Electroanalysis groups is always a useful exercise for those of us working on the electrochemical side of corrosion studies. In particular, the scheduling of the plenary lectures to run across the whole timetable ensures that not only do those of us in corrosion get to hear about the most exciting developments in the electrochemistry world, but also that the RSC audience are lucky enough to attend the Evans Award plenary lecture on corrosion.

The winner of the Evans Award for 2009 was Professor Christofer Leygraf of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm in Sweden, who received the sword from Paul Lambert.

The winner of the Evans Award for 2009 was Professor Christofer Leygraf of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm in Sweden, who received the sword from Paul Lambert, president of the Institute of Corrosion. Professor Leygraf has led his group over the last 25 years to develop techniques to investigate atmospheric corrosion mechanisms at the moecular level. His work to integrate different techniques, such as the use of the quartz crystal microbalance and infrared spectroscopy to measure the surface chemistry of processes and combine this information with traditional electrohemical techniques has added greatly to the theoretical basis of atmospheric corrosion.

The winner of the prize for the best student presentation in the Corrosion Science Symposium was Majid Ghahari, from Alison Davenport’s group at the University of Birmingham.

In the Corrosion Science Symposium
the winner of the prize for the best student presentation in the Corrosion Science Symposium was Majid Ghahari, from
Alison Davenport’s group at the University of Birmingham, who spoke on his
work on ‘Synchrotron studies of Stainless Steel Pitting Corrosion’, and showed some very interesting videos taken of pit growth changing under restricted current supply.

Next year’s meeting is to be held in Southampton in the first week of September, organised by Julian Wharton, so expect to see a flyer in these pages very soon.