Emilio Peña at Natural Gas Nation

March 30, 2010

Emil Peña, Executive Director for the National Corrosion Center, was invited to moderate at the conference “Natural Gas Nation”. As described by the George Bush Institute, “Natural Gas Nation” addressed the question of what needs to be done to make America’s explosively growing reserves of natural gas a true game-changer – for the environment, for [...]

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Emilio Peña and President Martinelli

October 29, 2009

Emilio Peña spoke with President Martinelli, President of Panama, about the National Corrosion Center at a special UTMB/ University of Panama accord signing on October 28, 2009. Pictured from left to right: Emilio Peña, President Martinelli, Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan and Houston City Councilmember Mike Sullivan.

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State-of-Art Interferometry

October 15, 2009

Scientists at The National Corrosion Center  have unveiled a one-of-a-kind microscope  that lets them zoom in for the closest look anyone has ever gotten of corrosion in action.     TOMMY LAVERGNE   Dr. Rolf Arvidson, left, and Dr. Andreas Lüttge demonstrate the new ZeMapper interferometer. “There is no other instrument like this in the [...]

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Dr. Ken Nealson

September 24, 2009

Dr. Ken Nealson, Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth Sciences and Biological Sciences, spoke to the National Corrosion Center Advisory Board on September 18, 2009.

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EIS and Corrosion

August 28, 2009

Impedance spectroscopy is an extremely powerful non-destructive investigative technique that can obtain essential information about interfacial and bulk material parameters through the use of low energy, time varying electrical excitation. When applied to an electrochemical system, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) can provide information on reaction parameters, corrosion rates, oxide characteristics and integrity, surface porosity, coating [...]

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NCC partners

July 18, 2009

The National Corrosion Center has signed or anticipates pending signatures on MOUs and general membership agreements with several partners including: NACE International, City of Knowledge-Panama, Houston Port Authority, University of Arkansas, Alamo Protechtacoat, HHK Technologies, Risavika Gas Center-Stavenger, and UDLAP (Universidad de las Américas Puebla).

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City of Knowledge

July 17, 2009

Creation of a regional  NCC Corrosion Lab and Training Center in Panama’s Ciudad del Saber (City of Knowledge) has been approved.  NCC Director Andreas Lüttge and Executive Director Emil Peña will visit in April 2009 to discuss next steps. City of Knowledge is a government sponsored cluster of academic organizations, technology companies and non-governmental organizations located across the Panama [...]

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Hackerman Memorial Symposium

July 17, 2009

NCC, RPSEA and NACE International will co-sponsor Protecting the Nation’s Infrastructure into the 21st Century at Rice University in Fall 2009.

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Emil Peña at NACE

July 17, 2009

NCC Executive Director  Emil Peña updated the NACE Research Committee on NCC activities and progress at the NACE 2009 Conference and Expo in Atlanta, March 25.

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Dr. Andreas Lüttge

July 17, 2009

Dr. Andreas Lüttge, Rice University Professor of Earth Science and Chemistry, has been appointed Director of the NCC with the enthusiastic support of  Dean of Engineering  Dr. Sallie Keller-McNulty and Vice Provost of Research Dr. James Coleman. Dr. Lüttge also chairs the NCC’s Technical Committee. NCC’s acting director Dr. Walter Chapman will continue on the Center’s Advisory Board and as Faculty Director [...]

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