Ab Inito Exploration of Nanocars as Potential Corrosion Inhibitors

Abstract

<p>With the intent to search for new unexplored potential inhibitors – a series of newly synthesized NanoCars possessing a permanent dipole moment that makes them able for a controlled surface movements (by electric field gradient from a scanning probe microscopy tip) are ab initio explored as corrosion inhibitors. The adsorption of the NanoCars onto Fe (1 1 0) surface was assessed using Density Functional Theory (DFT), Monte Carlo simulation (MC), Molecular Dynamics simulation (MD). The acquired results offered molecular level details in relation to the adsorption ability, adsorption centers, geometry and adsorption energetics of NanoCars onto the Fe(1 1 0) interface. </p>