Abstract
The guanine as a corrosion inhibitor for copper in 0.5 mol/L sulfuric acid solution was investigated using weight loss experiment, polarization curves, AC impedance. The results showed that the inhibition performance of the guanine depended on the concentration of the inhibitor and the highest inhibition efficiency of the guanine reached 92.2% at 1×10-3mol/L in 0.5 mol/L sulfuric acid solution. The potentiodynamic polarization measurements showed that both cathodic and anodic processes of copper corrosion were suppressed and the guanine acts essentially as a mixed-type inhibitor. The results obtained from EIS measurements are in good agreement with that obtained from potentiodynamic polarization. The adsorption of the guanine is found to obey Langmuir adsorption isotherm and belong to physisorption.
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