Joynab Solaiman has successfully defended her M.S. thesis, “Catalytic Effect of Metal Surfaces Associated with HSO4-/H2SO4 Formation.” Her focus was to develop a foundational understanding relating to how corroding, including precorroded, specimens could catalytically influence oxidation of S(IV) species; this has the potential to govern formation of strongly acidic H2SO4 in dense phase CO2. Joynab’s advisor was Dr. David Young.
Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology
Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology
Solving Corrosion Problems in the World's Energy Supply Lines
Researchers at the Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology (ICMT) have the unique capability to tackle one of today’s biggest challenges: preserving the integrity of major energy supply lines. Corrosion in oil and gas production and transportation infrastructure can cause catastrophic failure, environmental devastation and has large economic consequences.
Experts at ICMT partner with the world’s leading oil and gas, chemical, and engineering companies to predict and resolve their corrosion problems to help keep oil and gas production and transportation efficient, reliable, and safe. Through a unique combination of basic and applied research, and solution-based development, our engineers and technologists create for good.
ICMT: The Engineering Powerhouse Protecting Pipelines, Power and People
OHIO’s corrosion institute remains a world leader.
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ResearchOur studies of pipeline flow systems and chemical processes involving common corrosive elements helps maintain pipeline integrity and protect the environment from catastrophic pipeline failure.
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PeopleLed by Dr. Srdjan Nesic, we operate six large project teams comprised of doctoral and master’s candidates, postdoctoral researchers, project engineers and techs, and undergrad students.
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Facilities & InstrumentationOur $5 million lab facility features the unique capacity to generate a variety of flow regimes to simulate complex corrosion environments seen in real pipelines.
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SponsorsThe support of our strategic partners is critical to ensuring that our research in multiphase flow design and corrosion prediction continues.
ICMT Researchers in the News
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Joynab Solaiman Defends M.S. Research on Catalytically Driven Bisulfite Oxidation
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Kasra Shayar Bahadori Successfully Defends Dissertation
Kasra Shayar Bahadori successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Experimental and Theoretical Study of Carbon Dioxide Corrosion Inhibition Persistency," on April 29, 2025. The full text of his dissertation is available at Ohio Link.
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Dr. Choi receives 2026 AMPP Fellow Honor
Dr. Yoon-Seok Choi, Research Professor and ICMT Associate Director for Research, received the 2026 AMPP Fellows Honor at the March 18 Awards Ceremony, recognizing his most important contributions on advancing both the fundamental and applied understanding of corrosion in CO2 transport pipelines, particularly under conditions relevant to carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) infrastructure.
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ICMT Authors Win 2026 Ivy Parker Best Paper Award
The article "The Investigation of Iron Dissolution Mechanism in Acidic Solutions with and without Dissolved CO2-Part I: Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Measurements" was developed from research conducted in three labs in the U.S. and France and significantly advanced the understanding of anodic iron dissolution in chloride-containing acidic solutions, particularly in the presence of dissolved CO2.
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Visit from Collaborators at LISE, Sorbonne Université (France)
The ICMT was delighted to host Dr. Hubert Perrot and Dr. Alain Pailleret following their participation at the ECS Meeting in Chicago. In Athens, they toured ICMT facilities, met with students and researchers, discussed future collaboration, and delivered talks in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Seminar Series.
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Exploring High Temperature Corrosion at the Gordon Research Conference
Ph.D. students Zhuldyz Zhigulina and Kamila Turganova attended the Gordon Research Conference on High Temperature Corrosion in July 2025. Zhigulina presented "Contrasting CO2 versus H2S Corrosion of Mild Steel at High Temperature." Turganova presented "Impact of high NaCl concentration on CO2 corrosion of carbon steel."
ICMT Recognition at the AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2025
ICMT had multiple honorees, from undergraduate to senior faculty, at the AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2025.
- Senior Tyler Peoples was awarded the Oliver Moghissi Memorial Scholarship. He is currently continuing led by Dr. Marc Singer and Dr. David Young.
- Graduate student Favour Bawa won second place in the Mars Fontana category for her poster "Water Wetting Criteria to Assess Corrosion Risk in Two-Phase CO2-Water Pipeline Transport". She is currently engaged in PhD research within our ongoing CCT-JIP, led by Dr. Yoon Seok Choi.
- Recent Ph.D. graduate Kushal Singla received the 2025 Annual Conference + Expo Publication Award recognizing the most impactful nominated paper at conference. In "Adsorption of Model Inhibitor Compound Characterized Using Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Monitoring," he demonstrated that his adsorbed layer of quat-type corrosion inhibitor molecules behaves as a rigid mass.rrently a post-doc in ICMT.
- Dr. Bruce Brown and Professor Tingyue Gu won the prestigious honor of AMPP Fellows.
ICMT Recognition at AMPP 2026
ICMT again achieved notable recognition at AMPP 2026 with faculty and students receiving awards. The AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2026 was held in Houston, Texas, at the George R. Brown Convention Center from March 15–19, 2026. This premier event for materials protection and corrosion control featured over 600 hours of technical content, an extensive exhibit hall, and networking opportunities with global industry leaders.
In large part recognizing his contributions associated with corrosion in dense phase CO2 environments, Research Professor Yoon-Seok Choi (third from right) was made an AMPP Fellow.
The same honor was bestowed on OU ICMT alumni Prof. Dake Xu, student of Prof. T. Gu, now a professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
Negar Moradighadi, Huiru Wang, Luntao Wang, Antoine Seyeux, Alain Pailleret, Philippe Marcus, and Srdjan Nešić were recipients of the Ivy M. Parker Award for their best paper published in the Corrosion journal in 2025, “Investigation of Iron Dissolution Mechanism in Acidic Solutions with and without Dissolved CO₂—Part I: Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Measurements”.
OHIO PhD students Zhuldyz Zhigulina and Michael Hehemeku (supervised by Professor Singer), and Adnan Khan (Professor Gu), were all student poster winners. Zhuldyz (left) took second in the Harvey Herro-Bernard Appleman Category of Applied Materials Protection Technology with “What Role Does CO2 Play in H2S Corrosion Under High-Temperature Conditions?”, Adnan (center) taking third with “Mitigation of Corrosion Biofilms for Pipeline Protection Using Plant-Based Antibacterial Agent Anthraquinone (AQ)”. Michael (right) took third in the Mars Fontana Category of Corrosion Engineering category with “Investigation of the Heterogeneous Pathway for Acid Formation in Dense Phase CO2 Pipelines”.
Kamila Turganova and Zhuldyz Zhigulina were recipients of the AMPP Book award for 2026. This award provides up to four $1,500 awards annually to help graduate students build their corrosion libraries. Administered by the Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP), this award allows winners to purchase books, often through the AMPP bookstore, to support their research and education in corrosion engineering and materials protection.
ICMT also hosted an “alumni, students and friends” reception, with 80+ in attendance.
