New fundamental and environmental aspects of atmospheric corrosion

Probing Liquid/Solid Interfaces at the Molecular Level

“…A related application of SFG is in the study of corrosion. For instance, an SFG study by Leygraf and co-workers designed to establish the mechanism of the corrosion of Cu and Zn with acetic acid in a humid environment afforded the detection of the metal acetate species believed to initiate the oxidation of the surface . SFG data were used in a second example to show that the corrosion of gold by cyanide ions starts with the formation of linearly bound cyanide but evolves over time to generate higher-coordinated gold-cyanide complexes .…”