Methods are disclosed which discourage formation of destructive corrosion on or about circuit traces of printed circuit boards, and/or mitigate electronic circuit degradation and or destruction through corrosion of the circuit traces, whereby said corrosion produces changing characteristics of the circuit, and/or shorting to other adjacent circuit traces. Aspects and embodiments of the present disclosure include or provide for forming at least a portion of a circuit trace or traces with fractal and/or self-complementary geometries, or self complementary geometry alone.