THERMODYNAMICS AND CORROSION - INTRODUCTION

After having paid tribute to the pioneer works of Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, Ulick Evans and Carl Wagner, the author mentions the joint activities of CITCE and CEBELCOR in electrochemistry and corrosion, with special reference to graphical methods in electrochemical thermodynamics (electrode potential/pH and electrode potential/temperature diagrams) and in electrochemical kinetics (polarization curves in stirred solution). Examples of results obtained by these methods are given concerning corrosion and some other fields related to electrochemistry. The author expresses the wish that further work be conducted in these areas, preferably by a group of eletrochemists and other scientists who would accept to link their efforts in 'applied thermodynamics and corrosion' according to a 'moral charter' similar to the one which led in 1949, in electrochemistry, to the creation of CITCE. © 1990.