Design of New Ecofriendly Schiff Base Inhibitors for Carbon Steel Corrosion Protection in Acidic Solutions: Electrochemical, Surface, and Theoretical Studies.

Corrosion poses a significant problem for several industrial sectors, inducing continuous research and development of corrosion inhibitors for use across a wide range of industrial applications. Here, we report the effectiveness of three newly developed Schiff bases derived from amino acids and 4-aminoacetophenone, namely, , , and , as environmentally friendly corrosion inhibitors for Q235 steel in hydrochloric acid using electrochemical and surface analyses, in addition to theoretical techniques. The electrochemical findings of potentiodynamic polarization (PDP) demonstrated that the explored compounds serve as mixed-type inhibitors and can effectively suppress steel corrosion, with maximal protection efficiencies of 93.

Minimizing CO emissions by photocatalytic CO reduction to CHOH over LiMnO/WO heterostructures under visible illumination.

Photocatalytic CO reduction to valuable fuels has proved to be a favourable process to produce renewable energy and reduce CO emissions, which mostly depends on designing effective photocatalysts with the rapid separation rate of charge carriers. In this contribution, mesoporous n-n heterojunction LiMnO/WO nanocomposites were designed via a simplistic sol-gel process for CO reduction utilizing visible illumination (λ > 420 nm). XRD and TEM measurements confirmed the synthesized LiMnO/WO nanocomposite is a monoclinic structure, and its particle size is 25 ± 5 nm.

Synthesis of mesoporous Ag/α-FeO/TiO heterostructures with enhanced and accelerated photo/-catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol.

4-Nitrophenol (4-NP) is reported to originate disadvantageous effects on the human body collected from industrial pollutants; therefore, the detoxification of 4-NP in aqueous contamination is strongly recommended. In this study, the heterojunction mesoporous α-FeO/TiO modulated with diverse Ag percentages has been constructed via a sol-gel route in the occurrence of a soft template P123. The formation of biphasic crystalline TiO anatase and brookite phases has been successfully achieved with the average 10 nm particle sizes.

Hierarchical porous TiO with a uniform distribution of anchored gold nanoparticles for enhanced photocatalytic efficiency and accelerated charge separation for the degradation of antibiotics.

A novel approach to synthesize porous Au/TiO nanocomposites has been achieved through a pyrolytic strategy by employing NH-MIL-125(Ti) as a TiO precursor, and photo-deposition of Au nanoparticles (NPs) onto porous nanocrystalline TiO with varying Au contents (0.05-0.5%).

Impact of reaction parameters for photodegradation pharmaceuticals in wastewater over gold/titania photocatalyst synthesized by pyrolysis of NH-MIL-125(Ti).

The efficient remediation of pharmaceuticals, including wastewater, remains a remarkably challenging issue for water regeneration. Herein, porous Au/TiO synthesized by pyrolysis of NH-MIL-125(Ti) was utilized to be an efficient photocatalyst for mineralization of trimethoprim (TMP) and Metronidazole (MNZ) as the parent compound. The effects of different factors, including TMP and MNZ concentrations, light intensity, HO concentration, Au/TiO dosage, and pH value of reaction solution on the degradation and mineralization performances during UV and visible light (VIS), were addressed.