Surface analysis and adsorption behavior of caffeine as an environmentally friendly corrosion inhibitor at the copper/aqueous chloride solution interface

Abstract

Corrosion inhibitors based on environmentally friendly and harmless products are currently being studied and developed. The corrosion inhibition properties of caffeine (1,3,7-trimethylxanthine) on copper corrosion in aqueous chloride solution (3.5?wt.% NaCl) are analysed here using stationary and transient electrochemical methods, and a theoretical study based on density functional theory is carried out. Caffeine is a very competitive compared to the chemical inhibitors that are often used for copper protection. Electrochemical and impedance experiments reveal that the protective efficiency of caffeine reaches a value of 96% at a concentration of 10^?2?mol L^?1. Based on these results, the Langmuir model appears to be the best representation of the adsorption of caffeine onto the copper surface. Scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to determine the surface morphology and the chemical composition of the copper surface in chloride media, in the absence and presence of caffeine. The results show the development of a mechanism of corrosion inhibition. In order to confirm the correlation between the inhibitory effect and the molecular structure of caffeine, quantum chemical parameters are used to calculate its electronic properties.     

Nonlinear multi-scale decomposition by EMD for Co-Channel speaker identification

Multimedia Tools and Applications - A multi-scale analysis method, called Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), has been proposed for analysis of nonlinear and non stationary data. The empirical mode...     

The Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Two-Dimensional Hyperbolic Problems. Part I: Superconvergence Error Analysis

In this paper we investigate the superconvergence properties of the discontinuous Galerkin method applied to scalar first-order hyperbolic partial differential equations on triangular meshes. We show that the discontinuous finite element solution is O(h ^p+2) superconvergent at the Legendre points on the outflow edge for triangles having one outflow edge. For triangles having two outflow edges the finite element error is O(h ^p+2) superconvergent at the end points of the inflow edge. Several numerical simulations are performed to validate the theory. In Part II of this work we explicitly write down a basis for the leading term of the error and construct asymptotically correct a posteriori error estimates by solving local hyperbolic problems with no boundary conditions on more general meshes.     

Robustness study of emerged communities from exchanges in peer-to-peer networks

The study of emerged community structure is an important challenge in networks analysis. In fact, several methods have been proposed in the literature to statistically determine the significance of discovered structures. Nevertheless, most of existing analysis models consider only the structural aspect of emerged communities. We are interested in studying the robustness of emerged communities in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. More precisely, we consider the emerged communities in the induced graph by all the exchanges in these networks. Hence, rather than examining the robustness only on the structural properties of the graph, we will focus on the parameters that allow the emergence of community structures. In fact, perturbing these parameters might destroy most of the obtained properties at the emerged level. To the best of our knowledge, robustness of networks has never been considered from this angle before. In this paper, we study the impact of perturbing the content and the profile of nodes on the emerged communities in P2P networks. We show how these alterations affect both structure and information supported by the emerged structures.     

Cancellation technique to reduce intercarrier interference in OFDM

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are sensitive to frequency errors, which cause intercarrier interference among subcarriers. A new cancellation method to reduce the effects of frequency offset errors is presented. The main feature is to map each data symbol a_k which is to be transmitted onto a pair of non-adjacent subcarriers, with weightings +1 and -1, rather than to a single subcarrier. The carrier-to-interference ratio gain of the proposed method over normal OFDM varies between 10 to 30 dB. This method also offers a frequency diversity effect in a multipath fading channel     

Bandwidth efficiency of MC-CDMA signals

The bandwidth efficiency of MC-CDMA signals is evaluated and compared to that of DS-CDMA signals. For the same available bandwidth, the achievable processing gain of the two systems with and without filtering is evaluated and then compared     

Physical and chemical characterization of adsorbed protein onto gold electrode functionalized with Tunisian coral and nacre

Bone substitutes are more and more used in bone surgery because of their biologic safety, clinic efficiency and facility to synthesize. Bone substitutes with active osteogenic properties, associating biomaterials with organic macromolecule components of the extracellular matrix (protein, GAG) are recommended. Nevertheless, we should have a simple technique to control interactions between proteins and the material. Natural coral and nacre have been found to be impressive bone graft substitutes. In this work, we characterize nacre and coral powder using energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX). We used electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy to evaluate bovine serum albumin (BSA) as model protein, adsorbed to these biomaterial surfaces. In order to understand the nacre/coral-protein interfacial compatibility, it is necessary to investigate the wettability.     

Growth and characterization of hydroxyapatite nanorice on TiO2 nanofibers

Hydroxyapatite (HA) coating with nanoparticles like nanorice is fabricated on chemically pretreated titanium (Ti) surface, through an electrochemical deposition approach, for biomaterial applications. The Ti surface was chemically patterned with anatase TiO₂ nanofibers. These nanofibers were prepared by in situ oxidation of Ti foils in a concentrated solution of H₂O₂ and NaOH, followed by proton exchange and calcinations. Afterward, TiO₂ nanofibers on Ti substrate were coated with HA nanoparticles like nanorice. The obtained samples were annealed at high temperature to produce inter diffusion between TiO₂ and HA layers. The resultant layers were characterized by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), corrosion tests in SBF solution, and Electron Probe Micro Analysis (EPMA). It was found that only Ti from the titanium substrate diffuses into the HA coating and a good corrosion resistance in simulated body fluid was obtained.     

Antenna diversity for a narrow-band successive-cancellation multiuser detector

The performance of a successive-cancellation multiuser detector (SC-MUD) for narrow-band signals operating in the Rayleigh-fading channel is shown to deteriorate severely unless very large power margins at the receiver are maintained. To mitigate this deterioration, antenna diversity is applied and adapted to the SC-MUD. In each detection stage, the best signal for detection and the corresponding combining weights are determined jointly. Two criteria for selecting the best signal based on maximizing the signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio and maximizing the minimum distance-to-noise ratio, respectively, are proposed and evaluated. For signal combining, zero forcing and minimum mean square error (mmse) combining are considered. The obtained results show that the SC-MUD with mmse combining performs close to maximum likelihood joint detection while keeping a much lower computational complexity when the number of users is less than the number of receive antennas. The effect of channel-estimation errors is investigated for orthogonal training sequences and shown to result in a minor degradation compared to perfect estimation.     

Synergistic effect of iodide ions and bark resin of Schinus molle for the corrosion inhibition of API5L X70 pipeline steel in H2SO4

The synergistic effect of bark resin of Schinus molle (BRSM) and iodide ions in 0.5 M sulfuric acid has been studied for the first time by potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements; also, the surface morphology has been analyzed by scanning electron microscopy–energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopic analysis in the present work. The results show that the BRSM and iodide ions have an evident synergistic inhibition effect in a 0.5-M sulfuric acid solution. The adsorption of the BRSM/iodide ion system follows the Langmuir adsorption isotherm and acts as a mixed-type inhibitor in sulfuric acid. The BRSM/iodide ion system is an effective inhibitor for API5L X70 pipeline steel in the 0.5-M sulfuric acid solution. The maximum percentage inhibition efficiency is equal to 99% at 1 g/L BRSM + 2 mM KI.