Rate My Professor Bobby Mathan

Mathan's career includes significant contributions to corrosion behavior of magnesium alloys for biodegradable implants, stress corrosion cracking of magnesium and aluminum alloys, electrochemical corrosion of steels, and surface treatments like calcium phosphate and polylactic acid coatings. He has served as an investigator on Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, including 'Microbiological and abiotic marine corrosion of steel in particulate media' (2017-2019, $443,870), 'Longer-term progression of localised corrosion of critical infrastructure' (2020-2024, $586,424), and 'Short- and long-term corrosion of steels in highly calcareous seawaters' (2021-2023, $427,171). Key journal publications feature 'Corrosion resistance of Mg-Al-LDH steam coating on AZ80 Mg alloy: Effects of citric acid pretreatment and intermetallic compounds' (2023), 'Antipsychotic drug waste: A potential corrosion inhibitor for mild steel in the oil and gas industry' (2022), 'Advances in hydroxyapatite coatings on biodegradable magnesium and its alloys' (2022), 'Biodegradable 3D porous zinc alloy scaffold for bone fracture fixation devices' (2020), and 'Electrochemical surface engineering of magnesium metal by plasma electrolytic oxidation and calcium phosphate deposition: biocompatibility and in vitro degradation studies' (2018).