Significant reduction of corrosion of stainless steel by strong-field laser surface passivation

Liansheng Zheng; Hongwei Zang; Yuan Liu; Yukun Xiao; Yingbo Cong; Zhen Cheng; Ganwen Chen; Zhenxiang Xing; Jisheng Pan; Qing Jiang; Wei Chen; Kaoru Yamanouchi; Huailiang Xu; Ruxin Li

doi:10.1038/s41377-025-01952-5

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Significant reduction of corrosion of stainless steel by strong-field laser surface passivation

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- Significant reduction of corrosion of stainless steel by strong-field laser surface passivation
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 14, Issue 11, Pages: 3735-3746(2025)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China
  2.State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
  3.Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  4.Joint School of National University of Singapore and Tianjin University, International Campus of Tianjin University, Fuzhou, China
  5.School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China
  6.State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
  7.Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore
  8.School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China
  9.Institute for Attosecond Laser Facility, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  10.School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
  11.School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai, China
- Author bio：
  
  Huailiang Xu (huailiang@jlu.edu.cn)
  Ruxin Li (ruxinli@mail.siom.ac.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-025-01952-5
  CLC：
- Received：09 February 2025，
  
  Revised：2025-06-09，
  
  Accepted：03 July 2025，
  
  Published Online：05 October 2025，
  
  Published：30 November 2025
- Accepted：
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Zheng, L. S. et al. Significant reduction of corrosion of stainless steel by strong-field laser surface passivation. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 3735-3746 (2025).
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Zheng, L. S. et al. Significant reduction of corrosion of stainless steel by strong-field laser surface passivation. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 3735-3746 (2025). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-025-01952-5.

摘要

Abstract

Stainless steels are basic corrosion-resistant materials

but despite great efforts for over a century

they still suffer inevitably from environmental erosions by ubiquitous chemical reactions

resulting in typical corrosion rates at dozens of μm∙yr

-1

. Here

we developed a strong-field laser passivation strategy to obtain super corrosion-resistant stainless steels through forming a hybrid µm-Fe

/Fe

/Cr

passivation layer with unique bionic taro-leaf-like hierarchically heterogeneous Cassie-state micro/nanostructure morphologies. We observed up to 100

000-fold reduction in the corrosion rate of AISI 304 steel in saline

acidic as well as alkaline solutions. The ultralow corrosion rate can remain for

6500 hours. The generality was exemplified by exhibiting extreme anticorrosion enhancements of AISI 316

420

201

430

and 2205 steels under the same conditions. This study reveals a new strategy for achieving super corrosion-resistant performance of stainless steels in various harsh environments.

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