This book is a comprehensive collection of research papers presented at 22nd International Corrosion Congress held on October 22-26, 2024, in Xi'an, China. The book serves as a valuable resource of the critical progress and technical advances in corrosion and protection for academics, researchers, and professionals worldwide. The book focuses on the latest findings and progress of corrosion and protection in natural environments including atmospheric corrosion, marine biofouling and protection technologies, marine corrosion and protection, corrosion of archaeological and historical artifacts and microbiological corrosion etc.

The International Corrosion Council (ICC), founded in 1961, consists of representatives of countries interested in increasing the benefits to be derived from the advancement of corrosion science and engineering. These representatives, currently from 64 member countries, are generally appointed by nationally recognized corrosion societies or by national organizations with a significant interest in corrosion. This committee acts for the Council between International Corrosion Congress meetings which are normally held every three years.

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Prof. Xiaogang Li is one of the leaders in the field of materials corrosion and protection in China and currently serves as the director of the National Materials Corrosion and Protection Data Centre, the head of the National Field Observatory Network of Environmental Corrosion of Materials, the president of the Chinese Society of Corrosion and Protection, the delegate of China in the International Corrosion Council, the editor-in-chief of the Springer Nature partner journal "npj Materials Degradation," and chief advisor to the editorial board of "Corrosion Science." He has published 12 books and 650 peer-reviewed papers with 26,695 a citation of over 27000. He has been one of the world's most highly cited authors during the past three years. His concept of "Corrosion Big Data" has been highly recognized by the experts in corrosion and protection all over the world.