Determining the Chemical Composition of Corrosion Inhibitor/Metal Interfaces with XPS: Minimizing Post Immersion OxidationMonika S. Walczak 1, Perla Morales-Gil 1,2, Turia Belashehr 1, Kiran Kousar 1, Paulina Arellanes Lozada 1,3, Robert Lindsay 1
1Corrosion and Protection Centre, School of Materials, The University of Manchester, 2Laboratorio de Caracterización de Materiales Sintéticos y Naturales, Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, 3Departamento de Metalurgia y Materiales, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
A protocol to avoid the oxidation of metallic substrates during sample transfer from an inhibited acidic solution to an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer is presented.
