Corrigendum: Rare Earth Based Magnesium Alloys—A Review on WE Series
Lénia M. Calado1* 
M. Fátima Montemor- 1Centro de Química Estrutural-CQE, DEQ, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2ESTSetúbal, CDP2T, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal
A Corrigendum on
Rare Earth Based Magnesium Alloys—A Review on WE Series
by Calado, L. M., Carmezim, M. J., and Montemor, M. F. (2022). Front. Mater. 8:804906. doi: 10.3389/fmats.2021.804906
In the original article, there was a mistake in the legend for Figure 2 as published. The reference cited in the figure legend is not correct. The correct legend appears below.
FIGURE 2. Possible mechanism of corrosion for WE series magnesium alloys (A), involving the formation of a Mg(OH)2 layer on the surface of the alloy (B), with localized microgalvanic corrosion at preferential sites (C). Figure reproduced from (Kharitonov et al., 2021) under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 License.
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: magnesium alloys, rare earth elements, corrosion, corrosion protection, coatings
Citation: Calado LM, Carmezim MJ and Montemor MF (2022) Corrigendum: Rare Earth Based Magnesium Alloys—A Review on WE Series. Front. Mater. 9:858921. doi: 10.3389/fmats.2022.858921
Received: 20 January 2022; Accepted: 31 January 2022;
Published: 02 March 2022.
Edited and reviewed by:
Yingwei Song, Institute of Metal Research (CAS), ChinaCopyright © 2022 Calado, Carmezim and Montemor. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Lénia M. Calado, leniacalado@tecnico.ulisboa.pt