화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.76, 374-387, August, 2019
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2019.04.003  Export Citation
Study of new amphiphiles based on ferrocene containing thioureas as efficient corrosion inhibitors: Gravimetric, electrochemical, SEM and DFT studies
Saira Fatima1, 2, †, Renu Sharma2, Faiza Asghar3, Ajar Kamal2, Amin Badshah1, and Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz2, †
  • 1Coordination Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, 45320 Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 2Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto M1C1A4, Canada
  • 3Department of Chemistry, University of Wah, Quaid Avenue, Wah, 47000, Pakistan
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Three new ferrocene-based thioureas with different chain lengths were synthesized, characterized, and tested as surface active agent. To get insight of their various aspects of corrosion inhibition of mild steel in 1 M HCl, various standard methods were employed i.e., weight loss, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, polarization, FT-IR, scanning electron microscopy, and DFT. The results obtained from these methods clearly revealed the linear dependency of inhibition potential with the surface activity, concentration of inhibitor molecules as well as the temperature of the system. The theoretical results were found to be in close agreement with the experimental measurements.
Keywords:Ferrocene;Differential functional theory;Thiourea;Surfactants;Corrosion inhibition
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