Corrosion has a significant economic impact with losses in the magnitude of billions of USD annually in transportation, manufacturing and infrastructure. In this project, new corrosion inhibitors for galvanised and cold rolled steel are being screened experimentally and quantum chemically described using density functional theory and classical methods. A database is generated for computational model building to identify lead structures for the development of new highly effective inhibitors.
The project was conducted in conjunction with BASF Coatings.
Corrosion and Inhibition
Corrosion inhibitors, corrosion of steel pipes in a soil environment, photocatalysts for CO2 hydrogenation, nano-sensing, optical sensing.
