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.

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%).

Mechanical Milling: A Superior Nanotechnological Tool for Fabrication of Nanocrystalline and Nanocomposite Materials.

Throughout human history, any society's capacity to fabricate and refine new materials to satisfy its demands has resulted in advances to its performance and worldwide standing. Life in the twenty-first century cannot be predicated on tiny groupings of materials; rather, it must be predicated on huge families of novel elements dubbed "advanced materials". While there are several approaches and strategies for fabricating advanced materials, mechanical milling (MM) and mechanochemistry have garnered much interest and consideration as novel ways for synthesizing a diverse range of new materials that cannot be synthesized by conventional means.