The Author

Dr. Nelson Cheng, PhD (honoris causa), graduated as a marine engineer under the United Nations Development Programme Scholarship and received his doctor honoris causa from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (UABC).

He is recognised as Singapore’s leading inventor and the Singaporean with the highest number of patents from the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. He owns several worldwide patents, including VCI Mineral Stone Paper. He has invented more than 500 chemicals, lubricants, and anti-corrosion products, with more than 230 products assigned with NATO Stock Numbers and marketed in more than thirty countries. He is the inventor of several technologies for corrosion protection, including Vappro VCI (vapour corrosion inhibitors) and Vappro CRI (concrete rebar inhibitors), molecular reaction surface technology (MRST), colloidal corrosion inhibitors (CCI), and heat-activated technology (HAT). He has written more than 120 research papers and technical journals, published by the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), the International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE), the International Journal of Current Trends in Engineering & Technology (IJCTET), Cambridge University Press, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and IntechOpen; and he has co-authored several anti-corrosion books.

Nelson has received and accorded several accolades, including 2015 winner of the Asian

Packaging Award; Top 10 Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs 2015; winner of the Global Star, Asia Star, and Singapore Star Packaging Awards 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018; Top Entrepreneur Award—Singapore Small and Medium Business Association; Asian Excellence Award 2014; and Top 20 Innovation Award 2013 from the Small and Medium Business Association.

He is a member of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE), American

Chemical Society (ACS), World Corrosion Organization (WCO), and European Federation of Corrosion (EFC).

Dr Benjamin Valdez Salas was the director of the Institute of Engineering (2006–2013), Universidad Autonoma de Baja California.

He has a BSc in chemical engineering and an MSc and PhD in chemistry, and he is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the National System of Researchers in Mexico. He was a guest editor of Corrosion Reviews, in which he produced two special issues on corrosion control in geothermal plants and the electronics industry.

He is a full professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (UABC). His activities include corrosion research, consultancy, and control in industrial plants and environments.

He has published more than 350 publications, with almost 1,000 citations. He has received an NACE Distinguished Service Award. He has been a member of NACE for twenty-six years. He is the current technical director of the Magna Group of Companies.