Fig. 1: Engineering strategy for super corrosion-resistance stainless steels.
From: Significant reduction of corrosion of stainless steel by strong-field laser surface passivation

a Schematic of the SLF processing of stainless steel (left), and the images for laser filament-induced shock wave (right top) and plasma plume (right bottom); b Conceptual steel corrosion occurring in a saline solution with the unprocessed and processed steel surfaces (left), and schematic of composite passivation layers for anticorrosion in saline (NaCl), acidic (HCl) and alkaline (NaOH) solutions (right)