“…To fit the experimental data for modified copper samples, an approach has been taken that has been used for polymer-coated metals [44,45], oxide or mixed oxide/inhibitor polymer complexes on metal surfaces [10,11,27,31,[46][47][48] and self-assembled inhibitor layers of alkenthiols [33,49,50], aromatic thiols [51,52], dodecanethiol [35], dodecyl mercaptan [34], n-tetradecanoic acid [53] and potassium decanoate [54] on copper. The self-assembled layers were formed mainly by pre-treatment of an acid etched ground copper sample in an ethanol solution of inhibitor and then measured in test solution [33][34][35][49][50][51][52][53].…”