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Spectroscopic Investigations of Physicochemical Interactions on Mild Steel in an Acidic Medium by Environmentally Friendly Green Inhibitors

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The influences of Polycarpaea corymbosa (PC) and Desmodium triflorum (DT) leaf extracts on the corrosion behavior of mild steel (MS) in 1.0 M HCl was investigated by weight loss, potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements. The effect of temperature on the corrosion behavior of MS in 1.0 M HCl with the addition of plant extracts was studied in the temperature range of 300 K–320 ± 1 K. The results revealed that PC and DT were excellent green inhibitors and the inhibition efficiencies obtained from weight loss and electrochemical experiments were in good agreement. Inhibition efficiencies up to 91.78 % for PC and 92.99 % for DT were obtained. Potentiodynamic polarization studies revealed that both the inhibitors behaved as mixed-type inhibitors. Adsorption behavior of these green inhibitors on the MS surface was found to obey the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. The thermodynamic parameter values of free energy of adsorption (∆G ads) and enthalpy of adsorption (∆H ads) revealed that each inhibitor was adsorbed on the MS surface via both chemisorption and physisorption mechanisms. The adsorption mechanism of inhibition was supported by FT–IR, UV–Visible, WAXD and SEM–EDS.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappalli, 620 002, India

    Pitchai Sakunthala & Alex Ramani Vincent

  2. Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, 620 015, India

    Shanmuga Sundaram Vivekananthan, Mayakrishnan Gopiraman & Nagarajan Sulochana

  3. Nano Fusion Technology Research Lab, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Ueda, Nagano, 386 8567, Japan

    Mayakrishnan Gopiraman

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Sakunthala, P., Vivekananthan, S.S., Gopiraman, M. et al. Spectroscopic Investigations of Physicochemical Interactions on Mild Steel in an Acidic Medium by Environmentally Friendly Green Inhibitors. J Surfact Deterg 16, 251–263 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11743-012-1405-5

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