{"id":41909,"date":"2025-11-19T11:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/?p=41909"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:48:55","slug":"uf-joins-national-team-working-to-curb-costly-infrastructure-corrosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/stories\/uf-joins-national-team-working-to-curb-costly-infrastructure-corrosion\/","title":{"rendered":"UF joins national team working to curb costly infrastructure corrosion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The University of Florida is part of a multi-university, interdisciplinary research team that will tackle the global challenge of halting corrosion of infrastructure, like bridges.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitigating corrosion is a global challenge that costs the United States nearly half a trillion dollars annually.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current corrosion mitigation measures require costly chemical coatings, such as primers and top-coat layers, that cause human and environmental health risks. This project seeks to develop a coating system that uses naturally existing microbial biofilms growing on metal surfaces that appear to slow down or inhibit corrosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ufl.edu\/2025\/11\/mitigating-corrosion-\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.ufl.edu\/2025\/11\/mitigating-corrosion-\/\">Read full story on UF News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida is part of a multi-university, interdisciplinary research team that will tackle the global challenge of halting corrosion of infrastructure, like bridges.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":41911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41915,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41909\/revisions\/41915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}