(a) Mechanical behavior
(b) Corrosion
(c) Nano-scale characterization of passive films and oxides
(d) Microbially-induced deterioration and corrosion
(e) Atomistic and continuum modeling of corrosion
(f) Electrochemical techniques
(i) Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
(ii) DC techniques
(iii) Polarization resistance techniques
(iv) Electrochemical noise analysis
(g) Nano-scale surface characterization techniques
(i) FIB/TEM
(ii) SEM/EDX
(iii) EELS
(iv) XPS
(v) Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy