By
a reactive coverage of the metal
surface. In this case adsorption
process is followed by electrochemical
or chemical reactions of the inhibitor
at the interface
Z300TM first gets adsorbed (repelling
water) as:
Z300(sol)
+ nH2o(ads)
= Z300(ads)
+ nH2O(sol)
Given
Z300TM’s long carbon chain,
appropriate functional group,
heteroatom electron density and
functional group polarizability:
It
causes charge sharing/transfer
from inhibitor to
metal surface forming
a coordinate type
of bond.
Finally
it provides effective corrosion
protection as it provides:
A
polymer film that
grows from nearly
two dimensional
chain
adsorbed layers to
films up to several
hundred angstrom thick
