Chapter 1 Corrosion Protection Function and Breakdown Mechanism of Passive Films on Stainless Steels

Chapter 2 Passivation Oxide Films and Rust Layers on Iron

Chapter 3 Semiconductor Property of Passive Films and Corrosion Behavior of Fe-Cr Alloys

Chapter 4 Mechanistic Study on Formation of Iron Hydroxides and Oxides with FT-IR and UV Photospectroscopy

Chapter 5 Structural Characterization for a Complex System by Obtaining Middle-Range Ordering

Chapter 6 Corrosion Mechanism of Iron from an X-ray Structural Viewpoint

Chapter 7 Surface Analysis of Oxides and Corrosion Products Formed on Surfaces of Iron-based Alloys

Chapter 8 Characterization of Rust Layers on a Plain-Carbon Steel and Weathering Steels Exposed to Industrial and Coastal Atmosphere for Years

Chapter 10 Analysis of Iron Rusts by X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Measurements

Chapter 11 Various Scale Analyses to Create Functioning Corrosion Products

Chapter 12 Mössbauer Spectroscopic Study on Rust Formed on Steel Surfaces