Peter Visser

Biography

With a background in organic chemistry, Peter joined AkzoNobel Aerospace Coatings in 1997. In the global development group, he was responsible for the development of several high solids primers and topcoats for the aerospace industry. In 2007, Peter shifted his focus and started to work on chromate free primer technology for the protection of high strength aluminum alloys. Since then, he developed several chromate free products for exterior applications. Today, Peter is responsible for the search assessment and development of new chromate free coating technology for aluminium alloys.Peter joined the CTE group as PhD researcher in 2013. He has been working as a PhD researcher in the CTE group with Dr Arjan Mol en Professor Herman Terryn to investigate the mechanism and development of lithium based chromate free coating technology. Lithium salts have been proposed as leaching corrosion inhibitor for active protective coatings In this project Peter is investigating this lithium-based coating technology to obtain fundamental knowledge and understanding using (local) electrochemical techniques (EIS, SVET) and a range od surface analytical techniques ( Auger, XPS, FE-SEM).In this project Peter has been collaborating with AkzoNobel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and University of Manchester.

Research Interest

Corrosion Technology and Electrochemistry