Special Issue "Electrochemistry and New Materials Applied to Fuels Analyses and Metal Corrosion Studies"
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electroanalytical methods; nanomaterials; electrochemical sensors; corrosion inhibitors; coatings for corrosion protection; metal corrosion
Interests: corrosion inhibitors; corrosion prevention techniques and phenomenon; computational chemistry; green chemistry; polymers; nanomaterials; composites; materials science and engineering; alloys, petroleum engineering; advanced electrochemical corrosion measurements
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Dear Colleagues,
Several electrochemical techniques, such as the recording of the corrosion potential, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), electrochemical noise analysis (ENA), potentiodynamic polarization curves and Mott–Schottky technique are widely used to study metallic corrosion, as well as to investigate corrosion control methods. Regarding new corrosion inhibitors, natural inhibitors have been gaining greater expressiveness in the literature, since they come from renewable resources and vast availability, besides being biodegradable, of low cost and not harmful to the environment. Nanomaterials as carbon-based nanomaterials are a novel class of materials that have been used in anticorrosive coatings and their incorporation to metal composites and organic coatings come out for enhancing the corrosion protection. Carbon nanoparticles exhibit high stability, good conductivity, low toxicity, and environmental friendliness.
Generally, the standardized methods for the quantitative analysis of contaminants in fuels are based on chromatographic techniques or on time-consuming methods using indirect volumetric determination. Chromatographic techniques, although effective, have some limitations, such as the need for a derivatization step and a long time to the conclusion of the analysis, besides the high cost of standards, which contribute to the search for new analytical methods. Electroanalytical methods as voltammetry, potentiometry, amperometry come as a promising alternative for analyzing the quality of fuels. Nanomaterials have also been widely used in electrochemical sensors for increasing the sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio.
The aim of this Special Issue, " Electrochemistry and New Materials Applied to Fuels Analyses and Metal Corrosion Studies”, is to consolidate recent findings related to metallic corrosion and fuel analysis using electrochemical techniques and materials from natural products or nanomaterials. These materials are the focus, both for the development of new corrosion inhibitors and anticorrosive coatings and for the research of new electrochemical sensors. Original papers and critical reviews are welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Corrosion fundamentals;
- Corrosion control;
- Corrosion inhibitors;
- Anticorrosive coatings;
- Electrochemical sensors;
- Nanomaterials for sensors.
Prof. Dr. Eliane D'Elia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal corrosion
- corrosion inhibitors
- green corrosion inhibitors
- anticorrosive coatings
- electroanalytical methods
- fuel quality
- nanomaterials for sensors