Interactions of Different Redox States of Phenyl-Capped Aniline Tetramers with Iron Oxide Surfaces and Consequences for Corrosion Inhibition

2017 ◽  
Vol 164 (14) ◽  
pp. C1013-C1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanzina Chowdhury ◽  
Amirmasoud Mohtasebi ◽  
Svetlana Kostina ◽  
Xiangrong Zhang ◽  
Joseph R. Kish ◽  
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Author(s):  
William W. F. Chong ◽  
Hedong Zhang

Using Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation, the current study determined the surface forces between iron oxide surfaces when immersed in methyl oleate. Condensed-phase Optimized Molecular Potentials for Atomistic Simulation Studies (COMPASS) force field was used to model the methyl oleate molecules. For the nano-confinement simulation, the iron oxide wall was modelled from its crystal structure. The nano-confinement simulation model was setup in a manner where the confined methyl oleate molecules were in contact with the bulk molecules surrounding each side of the iron oxide walls. Through the simulation, the load-separation gap profile was obtained by reducing the separation gap between the ferric oxide walls. When the separation gap was reduced from 2.75 nm to 1.88 nm, the load is shown to increase monotonically. Such increase in load bearing ability of the contact is observed to correspond to a more densely packed methyl oleate molecules, reflected by four well-formed layers across the separation gap. As the gap is dropped from 1.88 nm to 1.63 nm, the load instead reduces, indicating deteriorating load bearing ability of the contact. However, the load bearing ability of the contact is then shown to recover when the gap was further reduced till 1.38 nm. This oscillatory load trend is shown to be as a result of a layer of methyl oleate molecules being squeezed out of contact, corroborated by the density profile change where four well-formed layers were reduced to only three layers from 1.88 nm to 1.38 nm gap. This also indicates that the simulated contact exhibits structural forces, known as solvation forces. Thus, the MD simulation discussed in this study is demonstrated to be capable of providing a foundation to allow for a multi-scale simulation, integrating various force laws at different length scales, to study larger scale tribological contacts.


2001 ◽  
Vol 174 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Bjorklund ◽  
Susanne Karlsson ◽  
Hans Borén ◽  
Bert Allard ◽  
Ingemar Lundström

1999 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 363-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sh. K. Shaikhutdinov ◽  
Y. Joseph ◽  
C. Kuhrs ◽  
W. Ranke ◽  
W. Weiss
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2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1165-1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramona L. Johnson ◽  
Amy J. Anschutz ◽  
Jean M. Smolen ◽  
Matt F. Simcik ◽  
R. Lee Penn

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