| Title: | Interactions of azole molecules with copper ions and copper surfaces covered with chemisorbed H, O, Oh or Cl : doctoral dissertation |
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| Authors: | ID Dlouhy, Matjaž (Author)
ID Kokalj, Anton (Mentor) More about this mentor... 
ID Milošev, Ingrid (Member of the commission for defense)
ID Podlipnik, Črtomir (Member of the commission for defense) |
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| Files: |  DR_Dlouhy_Matjaz_2023.pdf (94,45 MB)
MD5: 2994B36253226BD406E849B51FBF2EDC
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Dissertation |
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| Typology: | 2.08 - Doctoral Dissertation |
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| Organization: | MPŠ - Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School
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| Abstract: | In real environments, copper and other metal surfaces are never clean. Even during active dissolution in corrosion, they are likely to be covered with adsorbed corrosion-relevant species such as O, OH, H, and Cl. To explore the impact of such species on the bonding of imidazole, used herein as an archetypal model of azole corrosion inhibitors on Cu(111), we conducted a systematic computational study based on the Density-Functional Theory. Over 400 diverse adsorption configurations were considered, with close attention paid to the effects of variables such as surface coverage, the type of corrosion-relevant species, and the distance between the imidazole molecule and the corrosion-relevant species. We demonstrate that O and Cl enhance the adsorption bonding of imidazole, while H has almost no effect, and OH either diminishes or has a negligible impact on the imidazole adsorption. The effect of the adsorbed corrosion-relevant species on the imidazole adsorption usually diminishes with the increasing distance between adsorbed species and imidazole, and with decreasing coverage of corrosion-relevant species. We identified three coadsorption effects of O, OH, H, and Cl on the non-dissociative adsorption of imidazole, including hydrogen bond formation, enhancement of the N–Cu bond, and work-function change induced by coadsorbates. We also found that if the coverage of corrosion-relevant species is too high, then the chemisorption of imidazole is prevented either sterically or due to the unavailability of free surface sites. Moreover, our study shows that chemisorbed O and OH species promote deprotonation of azole molecules on the investigated copper surfaces, as exemplified by benzotriazole, imidazole, and Cu(111). The N–H bond cleavage is involved in such deprotonation. By undergoing molecular deprotonation during adsorption, the resulting adsorption states are more stable, which increases the persistence of chemisorbed azole molecules. Our findings demonstrate that deprotonated benzotriazole molecules exhibit stability that is roughly 1 eV higher on O/Cu(111) and OH/Cu(111), compared to an adsorbed intact molecule on bare Cu(111). However, for imidazole, the degree of stabilization is significantly weaker and ranges from 0.1 to 0.5 eV. Further, we investigated the formation of coordination complexes between copper central ions and 19 different N-heterocyclic inhibitor molecules in an aqueous medium, using a cluster/continuum model, which involves a few explicit water molecules and the surrounding water described implicitly. Our results indicate that most of the investigated ligands have the potential to coordinate with Cu(I) and Cu(II) ions, forming stable two- or fourcoordinated complexes, respectively. The thermodynamic stability of these coordination compounds was also evaluated. |
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| Keywords: | copper, corrosion, azole corrosion, doctoral dissertation |
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| Place of publishing: | Ljubljana |
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| Place of performance: | Ljubljana |
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| Publisher: | M. Dlouhy |
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| Year of publishing: | 2023 |
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| Year of performance: | 2023 |
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| Number of pages: | XXIII, 89 f. |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/ReVIS-13775 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 153574147 |
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| UDC: | 546.56:620.193(043.3) |
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| Note: | Besedilo v angl. jeziku;
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| Publication date in ReVIS: | 06.05.2026 |
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