“…First proposed in the context of solidification and micro-structure evolution, phase field methods are finding ever-expanding applications (Biner, 2017), including areas such as fracture mechanics (Bourdin et al, 2000;Tanné et al, 2018;Hir-shikesh et al, 2019) or fatigue damage (Lo et al, 2019;Carrara et al, 2020;. Very recently, phase field models have been developed for environmentally-assisted material degradation, including the propagation of cracks assisted by hydrogen (Martínez-Pañeda et al, 2018;Anand et al, 2019;Wu et al, 2020) and the evolution of the aqueous electrolyte-metal interface due to material dissolution (Ståhle and Hansen, 2015;Mai et al, 2016;Mai and Soghrati, 2017;Toshniwal, 2019;Gao et al, 2020). In addition, recent works have coupled the concepts of phase field evolution due to fracture and material dissolution (Nguyen et al, 2017a(Nguyen et al, ,b, 2018.…”