BIOCORROSION

Recent studies have demonstrated that mechanisms of microbiologically influenced corrosion are dependent on the biofilm populations as well as the metal substrata, and that this type of corrosion represents a local phenomenon in terms of both microbial biofilm distribution and activity, and electrochemical activity. The combined approaches of electrochemists, material scientists and microbiologists, using new on-line methods, will continue to provide elegant new insights into the complex interactions between multispecies biofilm consortia and metal surfaces.