Surfaces, Volume 6, Issue 4

More than half a century has passed since the establishment of surface science as a specific discipline [...]

Corrosion inhibitors are widely used as an important tool for the prevention and remediation of different materials exposed to corrosive industrial processes. Corrosion inhibitors are usually added to acid pickling solutions to reduce the deteriorati...

Non-noble metal electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) have recently gained particular attention. In the present work, a facile one-step electrodeposition method is applied in situ to synthesize cobalt sulfide nanostructures on nick...

In order to synthesize chemical filters for the selective removal of volatile fluorides, commercial magnesium fluoride MgF2 with high specific surface area (HSA) was investigated. The amount of -OH groups substituting fluorine is not negligible, part...

Cu2ZnSnSe4 thin films have been synthesized by employing two magnetron-sputtering depositions, interlaced with two sequential post-deposition heat treatments in low vacuum, Sn+Se and Se–rich atmospheres at 550 °C. By employing successive st...

The research purpose of this work is to examine the adsorption interaction of gaseous molecules (GMs), such as NO, NO2, SO, SO2, and SO3, with the surface of sodium magnesium phosphate NaMgPO4 (033), in a neutral medium, using two different computati...

To realize simple and intelligent electrochemical ammonia (NH3) detection in water, highly dense colloidal copper nanoparticles (CuNPs) were prepared and subsequently deposited onto a glassy carbon electrode (GCE). The CuNPs/GCE was then placed in an...

Employing a self-combustion method supported by egg white, pure and Fe-doped ZnO/C nanoparticles successfully biosynthesized. XRD, FTIR, Raman, SEM/EDS and TEM measurements were used to characterize the pure and doped systems. The materials under inv...

Researchers have just discovered an alternative to synthetic corrosion inhibitors, which are hazardous and terrible for the ecosystem, to prevent rusting in the environment. A metal corrodes when it is subjected to corrosive media (acid, base, or sal...

Oxide films produced from plasma electrolytic oxidation are porous in structure. While they have some passivating effect in Mg alloys, the pores still lead to corrosion over long periods of exposure. In this study, spray pyrolysis was used to seal th...