The Battelle Smart Corrosion Detection Bead: Detection and Repair in One Step Challenge Corrosion costs industry billions of dollars every year—more than $7 billion annually for oil and gas pipelines alone. Human-eye inspection is time consuming and may miss signs of corrosion at the very early stages when it would be most cost efficient to repair, particularly if the corrosion occurs under a coating. Unless mitigated quickly, corrosion will spread and weaken the physical structure of materials and equipment, eventually leading to failure of the affected component. By the time corrosion is visible to the eye, the damage can be very costly to repair. Battelle wanted to find a way to improve the odds of early detection and mitigate the effects of corrosion before it spreads. Solution We deve

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