Liquid Metal Corrosion

Prof. Jinsuo Zhang is a professor of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Program at the Virginia Tech. His research interests are material degradation (corrosion) and coolant chemistry for advanced nuclear reactors including liquid metal and molten salt reactors. He has been working on liquid metal corrosion since 2001. He has published more than 130 journal papers relevance to materials corrosion. Before Prof. Zhang joined the Virginia tech, he was an associate professor at The Ohio State University from 2012 to 2017, and was staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2004 to 2012. Porf. Zhang got his Ph.D from Zhejiang University in 2001.

• 1. Introduction on liquid metal corrosion2. Metal dissolution3. Liquid metal corrosion-general theories4. Corrosion in isothermal systems5. Flow induced corrosion in non-isothermal systems6. Diffusion in structural materials7. Interfacial interactions8. Oxygen behaviours and control9. Oxide growth kinetics and stability in liquid metal10. Oxidation-erosion interaction